stringify-element.js

/**
 * Creates a string of an element, showing the node name and all attributes.
 * This is mainly useful for debugging in Internet Explorer where a DOM node
 * representation isn't shown in the console.
 * 
 * @param {Element} elem Element to stringify.
 * @return {string} String representation of the element.
 */
function stringifyElem(elem) {

    var str   = '<' + elem.nodeName.toLowerCase(),
        attrs = elem.attributes,
        i     = 0,
        il    = attrs.length,
        attr  = null;

    while (i < il) {

        attr = attrs.item(i);

        str += ' ' + attr.nodeName + '="' + attr.nodeValue + '"';

        i += 1;

    }

    return str + '>';

}