How to get HTML code of a WebElement in Selenium

Question

I am new at testing so my apologies in advance if my question sounds a bit primary.

I am using Selenium and Java to write a test.

I know that webElem

Answer 1

If you want the HTML of the element itself, you can use

webElement.getAttribute("outerHTML");

It will return the HTML of the element itself plus all the children elements. I'm not sure if that's exactly what you want. I don't think there is a way to just get the HTML of the selected element only.