get HTML of current page without ViewState ASP.Net

Question

Is there any way through which I can get HTML of my current page. By current page I mean let\'s say I am working on Default.aspx and want to get HTML by providing a button

Answer 1

Not sure why you want what you want, but... this is off the top of my head, i.e. I didn't try this code.

Add a client-side onclick to your button to show markup and do something like this:

function showMarkup() {
      var markup = "" + document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].innerHTML + "";

      alert(markup); // You might want to show a div or some other element instead with the markup variable as the inner text because the alert might get cut off.
}

If you need this rendered markup posted back to the server for some reason, store the encoded markup in a hidden input and post that back. You can register the script below on the server-side using ClientScriptManager.RegisterOnSubmitStatement . Here's the cleint-side code.

var markup = escape("" + document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].innerHTML + "");
var hiddenInput = $get('hiddenInputClientId');

if (hiddenInput) {
      hiddenInput.value = markup;
}

Hope that helps, Nick