outerHTML of an SVG element

Question

Why can not we get outerHTML of an svg element with element.outerHTML property?

Is this way is the best http://jsfiddle.net/33g8g/ for getting svg sourc

Answer 1

Using jQuery, you can easily create a temporary HTML wrapper around any element that doesn't support outerHTML :

function wrappedHtml(elt){
    var wrapped = elt.wrap("").parent().html();
    elt.unwrap();
    return wrapped;
}