How to get the whole contents of the file containing a javascript function into a string in the javascript function

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For instance, say I have the HTML page index.html. It has a javascript function someFn() (upon onclick) that needs to obtain the entire contents of this page (which also has text fields that are modified by the user. (So as a result, the page contents will be modified from the original content.) Eventually, this someFn() will try to obtain the entire contents of the page in a variable. This variable is then passed on to a PHP script in another file that does the required work. Alternatively, it may output it to a file which is read by the aforementioned PHP script.

The only problem is how the JS function will obtain the page contents in a variable. jQuery alternatives are welcome as long as they don't mess with the workflow of data shown above.

Why do you want to do this? We can help better if we understand the actual useage — Wesley Smith, Nov 27 '15 at 05:07
`var page = $('html').html()` page will contain the content of the whole page. — roullie, Nov 27 '15 at 05:08
Try this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7727446/javascript-get-output-from-separate-php-script — Samrat Aher, Nov 27 '15 at 05:14

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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Try using XMLSerializer.serializeToString() Get DocType of an HTML as string with Javascript to retrieve document.doctype as string , document.documentElement.outerHTML to retrieve html of root element of document

   var html =  new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(document.doctype) 
               + document.documentElement.outerHTML;

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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