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Debug console output

Say I make an XHR request and get back a HTML fragment (or the whole page), how can I see the unformatted output of that in the console, tags and all.
At the moment it displays formatted output and I need to take a look at what an HTML doc looks like at the device end. Whats a good work around for this?

TIA
Dave

Answer 1

From a stackoverflow post

function h(s) {
    return s.split('&').join('&').split('<').join('<').split('"').join('"');
}

Answer 2

I guess you could try a JavaScript equivalent to the PHP function htmlspecialchars

http://phpjs.org/functions/htmlspecialchars:426

In fact this whole site in extremely useful for people who know PHP and need a JavaScript equivalent ;)

http://phpjs.org/

Answer 3

Probably the easiest way would be to make a function that might look something like this, and pass the results from your the call into it:

function dehtml( html ){
  var text = html.replace( /&/g, "&amp;" );
  text = text.replace( /</g, "<" );
  text = text.replace( />/g, ">" );
  return text;
}

If its used in a lot of places, you might even have this function also call the logging function.

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Debug console output

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