get self HTML code with jQuery
<pre><code>&lt;div&gt;
  &lt;a href="#" class="selected"&gt;link1&lt;/a&gt;  
  &lt;a href="#"&gt;link1&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>and using following</p>

<p><code>$('.selected').html()</code> I get </p>

<p><code>link1</code></p>

<p>as a return value.</p>

<p>How can I get full html code of the selected DOM element, in this example to get</p>

<p><code>&lt;a href="#" class="selected"&gt;link1&lt;/a&gt;</code> </p>

<p>instead?</p>

<p>thanks</p>
