How do I write selected jQuery DOM elements back out as XHTML snippets?

Question

I'm wanting to select some DOM elements using jQuery, modify some attributes, and then write the DOM elements back out as xhtml snippets for post processing. I want the resulting xHTML to have only the attributes specified in the original page html plus the modifications I make with jQuery.

Is there an existing javascript library or API that can help me accomplish this task?

Answer 1

The outerHTML jQuery plugin gives jQuery support for what I think you're asking for - getting the full HTML for a given tag.

But watch out - you can't trust your user input on this. Any user can easily hijack the data you're going to send for "post-processing" and make it say whatever they want.