Paste outer html

A jQuery object has a reference to the native element you want and you can extract it with $('selector')[0] , from there you can use native JS.

var outer = $('selector')[0].outerHTML;

Another option is to create a temporary element that inserts the first element and searches for .html() . You may need this solution if you have multiple elements.

var outer = $('<div>').append($('selector').clone()).html();

or, without having to clone:

var outer  = $('selector').wrapAll('<div>').parent().html();

Use

$("selector")[0].outerHTML;