Thanks for the info, that sounds like it should work and an easy way to get
what I need.  When I said great fucntionality I meant that one function
(outerHTML) not the browser itself.  I am by no means a fan of IE.



On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:27 AM, SamGoody <[email protected]> wrote:

> Create a hidden div, clone the element you need into it, get the
> innerHtml of the parent.
>
> var copy = $('whatIneedTheOuterHtmlOf').clone();
> var Outer = new Element('div').adopt(copy);
> var theHtml = Outer.get('html');
> Outer.destroy();
>
> Done from memory, but I think that's correct.
>
> But, please don't talk that way about IE.  While there are some
> features that IE has that should be adopted by the other browser
> vendors, to say it has "great functionality" is a banal insult to the
> many many many many many tedious hours of bugging (messing up good
> code to make it work in IE) that it causes.
>
>
>
> On Feb 11, 3:55 am, Trevor Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is there a way the get a tags outerHTML in mootools since it is
> apparently
> > an IE only option, as much as I hate to admit it I since it was built by
> > Microsoft I think that is great functionality.
>

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