How to use JQuery selectors on a HTML String?

Question

$.get(url, function(data){}

This jQuery function returns a string with the code of the page 'url'.

How can I use the jQuery selectors on it to extract the tags informations that I need?

adeneo · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-02 13:30:50Z

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If it's valid HTML, you can just wrap it in jQuery and use it as you normally would :

$.get(url, function(data){
    $(data).find('div');
});

answered Apr 2, 2013 at 13:30

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PSR · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-02 13:31:32Z

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try this

$(data).find('div');

you can use this

answered Apr 2, 2013 at 13:31

PSR

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Yogesh Khatri · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-02 14:04:01Z

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wrap your data with div (for including the outer most element also to extract the tags) and than use find

$("<div>" + data + "</div>").find('div')

answered Apr 2, 2013 at 14:04

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