Question

I am getting the whole html page in responseText, i just want to parse/
filter the responseText to
get a specific div say test and underlying contents. I would not
like to modify the server side code to send just required div in
responseText.

url: "Someurl",
datatype: "text/html",
success : function(responseText) 
{
    alert(responseText);
dat = $(data).filter("#test").html();
alert(dat);//getting null
$('#test').html(dat);

}

responseText contains

100’s of HTML lines….
….
….many more div tags and other
tags
….
100’s of HTML lines

I’m using jquery and i tried

$(responseText).filter("#test").html();

and used find too

Answer 1

If you have only html in the response AND your intention is to pinpoint a DIV using a unique ID, then it might be even easier than the example I gave earlier.

Try something like this

var myHtml = $(responseText).find('#test').html();
//alert(myHtml); -- optional, just to verify