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Answer 1

+2 A:

If you want to just show the page text in the page, try this:

$('button').click(function(){
  $('#output').empty().html(('<html>\n  ' + $('html').html() + '\n</html>')
     .replace(/&/gm, '&amp;')
     .replace(/</gm, '&lt;')
     .replace(/>/gm, '&gt;')
     .replace(/\r/gm, '')
     .replace(/\n/gm, '<br>')
   );
});

That works for me in Chrome, Firefox, and IE8.

Pointy 2010-05-20 14:16:51

thanks :) but i also need to remove some elements from the original html, how can I do that with you method?

mofle 2010-05-20 14:24:21

Well, you could do your `clone()` operation, mess with it however you want, and then work with the `.html()` value of the result.

Pointy 2010-05-20 14:27:49

Answer 2

+1 A:

This seems to work in IE, Firefox & Safari. I'm calling the javascript DOM API cloneNode() method instead of jQuery's clone(). Don't know why it works. You should probably do some more browser testing.

var $scripts = $('script');            // Cache all scripts in the document

var html = $('html').get(0).cloneNode(true);  // Clone HTML using DOM API

var $html = $(html);                     // Make jQuery object from cloned HTML

$('script', $html).each(function(i) {       // Loop through scripts in $html
    this.text = $scripts.get(i).innerHTML;  //  replacing content with that
});                                         //  from the cached $scripts

$('#output').empty().text($html.html());    // Append to #output

patrick dw 2010-05-20 14:52:06

almost, but it removes embedded scripts. like if i have <script> var test = true; </script>. only the <script></script> tags are left. any ideas?

mofle 2010-05-21 08:27:43

OK, I think I've got it. Since IE kindly leaves us the empty `script` tags, all we need to do is cache those first, clone our `html`, then updated the empty `script` tags with the content of the cached ones. Seems to work. I updated my answer. Let me know.

patrick dw 2010-05-21 12:50:06

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