How do I get the entire page's HTML with jQuery?

Question

I used $(document).html(), but that threw an error... is there a way to get everything?

Answer 1

Don't forget the tag can have attributes too. If you want the whole document this should work.

 $('html')[0].outerHTML

It's also trivial without jQuery.

document.documentElement.outerHTML

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If you also want to include the doctype, it's a little more involved.

var getDocTypeAsString = function () { 
    var node = document.doctype;
    return node ? "\n' : '';
};

getDocTypeAsString() + document.documentElement.outerHTML