Get content inside script as text

Question

I would like to print the content of a script tag is that possible with jquery?

index.html

<script type="text/javascript">      function sendRequest(uri, handler)     {       } </script> 

Code

alert($("script")[0].???); 

result

function sendRequest(uri, handler) {   } 

Answer 1

Just give your script tag an id:

<div></div> <script id='script' type='text/javascript'>     $('div').html($('#script').html()); </script> ​ 

http://jsfiddle.net/UBw44/