Get HTML Content without comment lines using jquery

Question

Look at the following code.

HTML:

<div>
  <p>sdfsdfsfsf</p>
  <!--<p>testing</p>-->
</div>

JQUERY

$(document).ready(function(){
   alert($("div").html());
});

OUTPUT

<p>sdfsdfsfsf</p>
<!--<p>testing</p>-->

As I know it will give the output like above only. My Question is, Is there anyway we can get the output without the commented lines?

Answer 1

You can create a clone and then remove all the comments nodes from it(if you don't want to modify the original dom)

$(document).ready(function () {
    var $clone = $("div").clone();
    $clone.contents().contents().addBack().filter(function () {
        return this.nodeType == Node.COMMENT_NODE;
    }).remove();
    console.log($clone.html());
});

Demo: Fiddle