.innerhtml converts
tag to

Question

I am trying to get the innerhtml of an html element which contains self closing br tags  but using .innerhtml converts the   to   tag. I am working with IE10 And it has no XHTML parser to get innerhtml. This is the html:

<div>
<span>line 1<br/>line 2<br/>line 3</span>
</div>

I want to retain the self closing tag as it is but want to avoid using regEx. Can anyone help me with some other approach to achieve this?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18990441/innerhtml-br-breaking Please see if this helps — Tinu Jos K, Dec 25 '19 at 18:08
It works as desired when you serve up the HTML file as XHTML to begin with. — Mr Lister, Dec 26 '19 at 21:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 26 '19 at 02:26

innerHTML converts it to   because it should be   in html. If you want to use it as   in XHTML, you could replace   with   after getting the inner html. You could refer to the sample below:

var a = document.getElementsByTagName("div")[0];
var b = a.innerHTML.split("<br>").join("<br />");
console.log(b);

<div>
  <span>line 1<br />line 2<br />line 3</span>
</div>

.innerhtml converts tag to

1 Answers1

.innerhtml converts
tag to