Question

I have a string of html, on which i want to use jquery functions.
The string has divs as below.

var html=        
    <div class = foo>
    some code
    <div class = bar>

    //more divs, code

    </div>
    </div>

I need to select the divs with class ‘bar’ out of these and use it for something. This is what I’m doing

var jqueryObj = jQuery( html);
jQuery('.bar', jqueryObj).wrap(   //a new div );

but this doesnt seem to be working.
its not taking the context of jqueryObj correctly.
Any idea where I am going wrong?

Answer 1

You could do something like http://jsfiddle.net/mazzzzz/LMZ4V/

It selects everything with a class of bar, and sets its html to Test, then prints the html to a textarea.