display html code of response returned by ajax, Jquery

Question

I have a jquery AJAX function which retrieves some HTML markup and displays it on the page. I would also like to display the html code of this HTML returned. I've looked around for a solution but not finding any. Can someone please help. Many thanks

$.post('get_news.php', $("#gifForm").serialize(), function(data) {
     //Show HTML
     $('#output').html(data);

     //Show HTML code
     $('#output_code').html(data);
});

Answer 1

try using the text() function. This will escape and display html code. http://api.jquery.com/text/

$.post('get_news.php', $("#gifForm").serialize(), function(data) {
  //Show HTML
  $('#output').html(data);
  //Show HTML code
  $('#output_code').text(data);
});

Answer 2

You can surround your html with "code" and it should display it as is without rendering the html:

$('#output_code').html("<code>" + data + "</code>");