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Asked: 2026-05-21T20:36:56+00:00

I am trying to read the response from an xhr request. I do not

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I am trying to read the response from an xhr request. I do not want to try to use regex to parse the information. Is there anyway to convert the response string into html elements so I can use document.getElementsById() to read the information I want? The solution cannot use jquery.

Edit: The format is regular html from an xhr response. I am trying to get the information out of divs ie.

<div class="name">John Doe</div>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Sure no problem, if your response is HTML, just create a DIV and shovel your response into it. Not sure about your mention of getElementsByName though, that’s not a standard DOM function as far as I know.

    var xhrResponse = "<span id='status'>SUCCESS</span>";

var clipboard = document.createElement("DIV");
clipboard.innerHTML = xhrResponse;
var searchingForSomething = clipboard.getElementById('status');
console.log(searchingForSomething.innerHTML); // => SUCCESS

    Your temporary DIV never even has to be in the document for this to work.

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