Using jQuery to Click on an Element and return it’s HTML

I was recently searching for a plug-in that returns the HTML for an element. I came across a solution suggested by Keegan that shows how to do so. Here’s the solution to find out the HTML of an element by clicking on it

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
 <title>Make an Image Clickable</title>
    <script type='text/javascript'
        src='http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.2.min.js'>
    </script>
   
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function() {
            $(".clickable").click(function() {
                alert($(this).returnHTML());
            });

            $.fn.returnHTML = function() {
                return $("<div/>").append($(this).clone()).html();
            }
        });

    </script>
</head>
<body>
   <input id="btnClick" type="button" value="Click Me" class="clickable" />   
    <br />
   
</body>
</html>

The example starts by capturing the click() event on elements which have the class=”clickable” attribute. The returnHTML() function clones the element and extract the html using html(). The result is appended to a div and returned to the calling function. The output is displayed in an alert() as shown below

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Using jQuery to Click on an Element and return it’s HTML

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