Get entire text of document as a string using javascript

I am developing a firefox extension and ideally would be able to get the whole darn DOM as a string.. forget any data structure. I just want what I see in "view source" in a buffer. I have been checking out javascri开发者_如何学编程pt references and HTMLDocument etc. with no avail.

Ideally I would be able to write to this buffer as well (seems possible i.e. document.writeLn()) I wish there was a document.read()? Am I just a js noob?

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document.body.innerHTML

This should work

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Maybe you want to traverse all the nodes of the DOM? You can do this with document.childNodes, working recursively with each node.

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How about document.body.innerHTML? If you need the head contents as well, you can also try document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].innerHTML and append the two.

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Not sure if you can load jQuery from a FF extension but -

This came up just the other day as a jQuery question. You can use the jQuery selector $('*').html() to get all the html without the 'html' tags.