DOMDocument::saveHTML

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMDocument::saveHTML Dumps the internal document into a string using HTML formatting

Description

public DOMDocument::saveHTML(?DOMNode $node = null): string|false

Creates an HTML document from the DOM representation. This function is usually called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below.

Parameters

node

Optional parameter to output a subset of the document.

Return Values

Returns the HTML, or false if an error occurred.

Examples

Example #1 Saving a HTML tree into a string

<?php$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');$root = $doc->createElement('html');$root = $doc->appendChild($root);$head = $doc->createElement('head');$head = $root->appendChild($head);$title = $doc->createElement('title');$title = $head->appendChild($title);$text = $doc->createTextNode('This is the title');$text = $title->appendChild($text);echo $doc->saveHTML();?>

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