Question

I am reading in a complex chunk of HTML and I’d love to be able to walk this sub-tree of HTML in the same way I can the DOM.

Is there a way in Prototype to take a raw chunk of HTML (say from an AJAX call) and ‘wrap it’ in some way so that it becomes a Prototype element and thus allow me to search it using .up() .down() etc?

Or do I need to add it to the DOM first before I can manipulate it in this way?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

var myDOMStructure = (new Element('div')).update(yourHTML);
myDOMStructure.down().down().up(); /// etc...