How do you convert a jQuery object into a string?
Jquery – How to convert a jQuery object into a string
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Best Answer
I assume you're asking for the full HTML string. If that's the case, something like this will do the trick:
This is explained in more depth here, but essentially you make a new node to wrap the item of interest, do the manipulations, remove it, and grab the HTML.
If you're just after a string representation, then go with
new String(obj)
.Update
I wrote the original answer in 2009. As of 2014, most major browsers now support
outerHTML
as a native property (see, for example, Firefox and Internet Explorer), so you can do: