Converting element object to HTML string?

JavaScript
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after i’ve built an element, can i convert that element to html?

the current method i’m thinking is to append this element to a new <Div> and call the Div’s innerHTML but it feels rather dirty. is there a better solution?

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It’s not necessarily dirty. You don’t have to append the DIV to anything. You can also use a document fragment:


var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();
frag.appendChild(stuff);
var html = frag.innerHTML;
delete frag; // if you're concerned about leaving things in memory
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heys thanks for the reply. anyways i was wondering do we actually need to explicitly do the delete. is it fine not to include that statement?