I was going to work on a proof of concept, but then I had the idea to see if
anyone else has already implemented this. Sure enough, Brandon Aaron has:
http://brandonaaron.net/blog/2007/06/17/jquery-snippets-outerhtml
<http://brandonaaron.net/blog/2007/06/17/jquery-snippets-outerhtml>
Ted
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:06 PM, bittermonkey <brakes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to get all the TABLE HTML code within the <body> tag for a
> content-generating application. I'm trying to use the html() method,
> but it only gets the inner HTML. I also tried clone(), but does the
> same thing. Or maybe I'm using it wrong. Here's an example to clarify
> what I wanted to do:
>
> Input
> ====================================================
> <body>
> <p>some text</p>
> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;">....</
> table>
> <div>...</div>
> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;">....</
> table>
> </body>
>
> Output
> ====================================================
> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;">....</
> table>
> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;">....</
> table>
>
> jQuery Code
> ====================================================
> $("body").children().each(function(){
> var contentHtml = "";
> if(this.nodeName.toLowerCase() == "table")
> {
> //need to include the <TABLE> code here
> contentHtml += $(this).html();
> }
> });
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
