What I would like to be able to do is create a string from a Javascript HTMLElement Object. For example:
var day = document.createElement("div");
day.className = "day";
day.textContent = "Random Text";
Now we have create the day
HTMLDivElement Object is it possible to make it print as a string? e.g.
<div class="day">Random Text</div>
Variant on Gump's wrapper, since his implementation lifts the target node out of the document.
function nodeToString ( node ) {
var tmpNode = document.createElement( "div" );
tmpNode.appendChild( node.cloneNode( true ) );
var str = tmpNode.innerHTML;
tmpNode = node = null; // prevent memory leaks in IE
return str;
}
To print the resulting string on screen (re: escaped)
var escapedStr = nodeToString( node ).replace( "<" , "<" ).replace( ">" , ">");
outputNode.innerHTML += escapedStr;
Note, attributes like "class" , "id" , etc being stringified properly is questionable.