The HTML object represents an HTML <html> element.
We can access the <html> element by using document.getElementsByTagName()
:
var x = document.getElementsByTagName("HTML")[0];
Click the button to get the HTML content of the html element.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <button onclick="myFunction()">Test</button> <p id="demo"></p> <script> function myFunction() {/*from w ww . j ava 2 s . c o m*/ var x = document.getElementsByTagName("HTML")[0].innerHTML; document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x; } </script> </body> </html>