Getting the entire HTML of a dynamically created element

Question

I'd like to get the HTML of a DOM element that was dynamically created:

 var titleTag = document.createElement("h4");
 titleTag.innerHTML = 'this is a title';

How can I get the entire DOM element with tags?

<h4>this is a title</h4>

Answer 1

The simple way is with outerHTML . This has historically been frowned upon, because it was custom Internet Explorer functionality that was not in any standards, but it is now widely supported and even in a W3C draft standard.

var HTML = titleTag.outerHTML;