Question

Assume that in

$.ajax({
    url: 'page1.html',
    data: {},
    success: function (data) {
        $(data)  //return an array of nodes
    },
    dataType: 'html'
});

$(data) returns an array of nodes:

[<div id="a">,
 <div id="b">,  //3 elements
 <div id="c">]

and I want to get the HTML of the div that has an id of "b". I tried

$(data).find("#b");

but it returns a blank array. ([]) So how can I select it? Please help.

Answer 1

• Use .filter() to select from top level elements.

• Use .find() to selected nested elements.