Hello,
First let me say that prototype js is a godsend. I use it on every
project I do now.
I repeatedly find myself having to do something like this:
var firstDiv = new Element('div', {
id: 'theID',
className: 'theClassName'
}).update(content);
var replacement = new Element('div').update(firstDiv);
oldElement = htmlText.replace(RegExp.escape(searchString),
replacement.innerHTML);
Or sometimes I want to find how long the text of the new element will
be. In both cases I end up having to create a wrapper div, then call
innerHTML on the new div to get the text content of the original
element. What I would like to see (unless I don't know of a feature
that already exists) would be a replication of IE's outerHTML
feature. Maybe call the method htmlText(). Using firstDiv from
above, it would work like this:
firstDiv.htmlText() or Element.htmlText(firstDiv) would return "<div
id=\"theID" class=\"theClassName\">[content]</div>"
The closest feature I can find to this is Element.inspect(), but it
only returns (in this example): "<div id=\"theID" class=\"theClassName
\">"
Thanks, in advance.
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