Resort to wrappers :). They don't actually have to be in the DOM:
var outerhtml = $('<div>').append($('#container').clone()).html();
outerhtml --> <div id="container">all the content</div>
On Mar 30, 12:40 am, Steven Yang <kenshin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> well html() just gets the innerHTMLso your out of luck there
> there is actually a plugin for getting the actually container html
> I remember coming across it on the jquery plugin pages
> you can try finding it there
>
> All i can say is its doesnt seem hard, but also not as easy as you think
> ^^
