How to get the <html> tag HTML with JavaScript / jQuery?
JavascriptJqueryJavascript Problem Overview
Using $('html').html() I can get the HTML within the <html> tag (<head>, <body>, etc.). But how can I get the actual HTML of the <html> tag (with attributes)?
Alternatively, is it possible to get the entire HTML of the page (including doctype, <html>, etc.) with jQuery (or plain old JavaScript)?
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
The simplest way to get the html element natively is:
document.documentElement
Here's the reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document.documentElement.
UPDATE: To then grab the html element as a string you would do:
document.documentElement.outerHTML
Solution 2 - Javascript
This is how to get the html DOM element purely with JS:
var htmlElement = document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0];
or
var htmlElement = document.querySelector("html");
And if you want to use jQuery to get attributes from it...
$(htmlElement).attr(INSERT-ATTRIBUTE-NAME);
Solution 3 - Javascript
In addition to some of the other answers, you could also access the HTML element via:
var htmlEl = document.body.parentNode;
Then you could get the inner HTML content:
var inner = htmlEl.innerHTML;
Doing so this way seems to be marginally faster. If you are just obtaining the HTML element, however, document.body.parentNode seems to be quite a bit faster.
After you have the HTML element, you can mess with the attributes with the getAttribute and setAttribute methods.
For the DOCTYPE, you could use document.doctype, which was elaborated upon in this question.
Solution 4 - Javascript
In jQuery:
var html_string = $('html').outerHTML()
In plain Javascript:
var html_string = document.documentElement.outerHTML
Solution 5 - Javascript
if you want to get an attribute of an HTML element with jQuery you can use .attr();
so $('html').attr('someAttribute'); will give you the value of someAttribute of the element html
Additionally:
there is a jQuery plugin here: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/getAttributes
that allows you to get all attributes from an HTML element
Solution 6 - Javascript
I found other alternative simple way using plain javascript:
const htmlElement = document.querySelector(':root')
console.log(htmlElement)