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How do you convert a jQuery object into a string?
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Stringify a JavaScript ObjectUse the JavaScript function JSON. stringify() to convert it into a string. const myJSON = JSON. stringify(obj);
The String() method converts a value to a string.
$() = window. jQuery() $()/jQuery() is a selector function that selects DOM elements. Most of the time you will need to start with $() function. It is advisable to use jQuery after DOM is loaded fully.
A jQuery object is array-like which means that it contains zero or more indexes (properties which names are positive integers starting with zero). Besides those indexes, a jQuery object contains these properties: length. context. selector.
I assume you're asking for the full HTML string. If that's the case, something like this will do the trick:
$('<div>').append($('#item-of-interest').clone()).html(); This is explained in more depth here, but essentially you make a new node to wrap the item of interest, do the manipulations, remove it, and grab the HTML.
If you're just after a string representation, then go with new String(obj).
I wrote the original answer in 2009. As of 2014, most major browsers now support outerHTML as a native property (see, for example, Firefox and Internet Explorer), so you can do:
$('#item-of-interest').prop('outerHTML'); With jQuery 1.6, this seems to be a more elegant solution:
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