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?

user_83381 · Answer

You could try:

$("html").html();

If you want to also capture the html tags you could concatenate them to the html like this:

function getPageHTML() {
  return "" + $("html").html() + "";
}

Diodeus_12579 · Answer

Use:

document.body.innerHTML

user_3226 · Answer

$("html").html() would get everything but the outer most html tags.

user_1148501 · Answer

No need to lean on jQuery. The best and simplest approach is to use

new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(document)

which will always give you the contents of the entire page including DOCTYPE tag, and it is supported in all modern browsers: https://caniuse.com/#feat=xml-serializer