Question

How do I get the text in the second td tag in this html string, can I pass a html string into the JQUERY object and filter through it like this?

var t = '<td>a</td><td>b</td><td>c</td><td>f</td>g<td>h</td>';


$(t).find("td:eq(1)").html();

Answer 1

.find is for finding descendants in the current set, the set is actually the td elements themselves so you need to operate on that, for example by using the .eq method:

var t = '<td>a</td><td>b</td><td>c</td><td>f</td>g<td>h</td>';
$(t).eq(1).html();
//"b"

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/NxcUk/

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var t = '<td>a</td><td><div>firstdiv</div><div>seconddiv</div></td><td>c</td><td>f</td>g<td>h</td>';
$(t).eq(1).find("div:first").html();
//"firstdiv"