Question

I have a string being passed to jquery like this
“”

I want to get the value of the bar attribute from the input.

I have

var htmlstring = "<input id='foo' type='checkbox' bar='foobar'/><img id='blah' src='blahblah' />";
var bar = $(htmlString).find('input:checkbox').attr("bar");

but it doesnt seem to be working?

Any ideas?

THANKS!

Answer 1

Change .find() to .filter().

.filter('input:checkbox')

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/2QkRm/

This is because the find()^[docs] method only looks at descendants of the elements at the top level of the jQuery object, whereas the filter()^[docs] method looks only at the top level elements.

Also, this may be a typo in the question, but your capitalization changed on your htmlString variable.