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Asked: 2026-06-18T17:35:02+00:00

Given var html = <html><body><p>Hello, World!</p><p>Ciao!</p></body></html>; I would like to extract the inner HTML

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Given

var html = "<html><body><p>Hello, World!</p><p>Ciao!</p></body></html>";

I would like to extract the inner HTML of the body tag (<p>Hello, World!</p><p>Ciao!</p>).

.find() finds the body DOM node

var body = $(html).find("body");

but I cannot find a means to get the inner HTML of that node. I tried:

var text = body.text(); //  returns ""
var var = body.var(); // returns undefined

How can I get a string representation of the <body> tag’s inner HTML?

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  1. Editorial Team

    jQuery will strip the html and body tags out when you wrap the string in $().

    Therefore you can do this:

    var str=$('<div>').append($(html)).html()

    DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/LxdrM/

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