See

http://github.com/brandonaaron/jquery-outerhtml

Here's the spoiler:

alert( $('<div></div>').append( $(this).clone() ).html() );

- Richard

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:14 AM, coldwired <co...@coolwired.net> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've got the following piece of code that extracts the html code contained
> within a clicked element:
>
> $("p,h1,h2,h3,span,li, dd, dt,b,em,strong").click(function() {
>    alert($(this).html());
> });
>
> I want to get the containing element from this too, it's open and close
> tag.
>
> For example:
>
> <div id="test-div">
>  <h1>text in <strong>here</strong></h1>
> </div>
>
> The above code would return "<h1>text in <strong>here</strong></h1>" - how
> can I return the div tag and it's attributes too?
>
> Thanks,
> Colin.
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