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. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Extract-tag-element-and-closing-tag-tp26512422s27240p26512422.html > Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >