title: Why doesn't jQuery.html() return html text for image objects?
body: <p>Example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var html_string = '&lt;img src="http://www.example.com/image.jpg" /&gt;'
  $(html_string).html()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>produces:</p>
  
  <pre><code>'' // an empty string
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Would expected that I'd get back the original HTML string in <code>html_string</code>. </p>
  
  <p>What's going on? How can I get an the results I expected?</p>