Clone an HTML page except divs of a specified class

Question

It's easy to clone your HTML file with jQuery:

alert($("html").clone().html());

My goal is to clone the whole program except divs of class '.ignore' but the best I can do is display ONLY those divs.

// This displays the inverse of what I want: just the code to be removed
alert($("html").clone().find('.ignore').remove().html());

// Seems to have the exact same effect as above:
alert($("html").clone().find('.ignore').html());

What's the best way to obtain all but the specified div class?

Answer 1

You could use the .end function

alert($("html").clone().find('.ignore').remove().end().html());

A working fiddle is here: http://jsfiddle.net/sh99ognm/