How to compare two HTML elements

Question

How can we compare two HTML elements whether they are identical or not ?

I tried this thing but no luck

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Answer 1

Why not do it the easy way?

 Hi this is sachin tendulkar 
 Hi this is sachin tendulkar 

if($('#div1').html() == $('#div2').html())
    alert('div1 & div2 are the same');        
else
    alert('div1 & div2 are different');

http://jsfiddle.net/5Zwy8/1/