Question

I have HTML in a string returned by an ajax call. I would like to get the value of an element like I would with a normal selector: $('#my_div'), not by regex.

Unfortunately I don’t know how to do this since it’s in a string…

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Try:

$(htmlString).html()

$(htmlString) will create a DocumentFragment of the String what will be accessible by jQuery.

Use find() to access specific elements inside this fragment:

$(htmlString).find('someselector').html()