jquery html() is decoding html entities by default?

Question

I dont know why on earth jquery html() is doing this, but after i do

$('html').html()

i get "&copy" automatically converted to ©

anyway to avoid this? I need to dump the html of the page using javascript and dont need this useless conversions that are screwing up the html.

Answer 1

This really isn't the jQuery, or even JavaScript for that matter.

The browser will hold its own normalised representation of the underlying DOM. It will bear a close resemblence the the document itself, but character decoding (like the above) will be preserved.

Have a read of the following:

http://www.brainjar.com/dhtml/intro/

http://bytes.com/topic/javascript/answers/146257-body-innerhtml-issue

I'm afraid there is no way around this as far as I am aware.