jQuery - Get selected element's outer HTML

Question

I'm trying to get the HTML of a selected object with jQuery. I am aware of the .html() function, the issue is that I need the HTML including the selected object (a table row in this case, where .html() only returns the cells inside the row). I've search around and found a few very 'hackish' type methods of cloning an object, adding it to a newly created div, etc, etc, but this seems really dirty. Is there any better way, or does the new version of jQuery (1.4.2) offer any kind of 'outerHtml' functionality?

Thanks!

Answer 1

$("#myTable").parent().html();

Perhaps I'm not understanding your question properly, but this will get the selected element's parent element's html.

Is that what you're after?

Answer 2

This site seems to have a solution for you : outer html