Convert a jQuery object and contents to string?

Question

I'm grabbing various jquery objects to put into an array and later spit out as HTML.

I'm trying to convert the jQuery object to a text string so it can be spit out as HTML later.

I'm using this technique at the moment:

console.log($myObject.clone().wrap('<div></div>').html());

However, that only appears to be grabbing the contents of my object.

For example, if $myObject is <h2>My Title</h2> the above only returns 'My Title' (no H2 tags).

I've also trying using .text() but get the same result.

Is there a way to convert the entire jQuery object into a text string?

Answer 1

Well, answering my own question.

console.log($('<div>').append($myObject.clone()).remove().html());

Thanks goes to John Feminella in this thread:

How do you convert a jQuery object into a string?

who references this post:

http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-get-full-html-string-including.html