Question

I have something like this coming as a JSON reponse:

<span id=\"my-id-527114\">Some data here</span>\n <span id="my-differentid">something else</span>

is there any way to get the text “Some data here”

Right now I am getting the text:

Here’s my function:

$( "#myelementid" ).autocomplete({
        source: function( request, response ) {
            $.ajax({
                url: "some remote url",
                dataType: "jsonp",
                data: {
                    term: request.term
                },
                success: function( data ) {
                    response( $.map(data, function( item ) {
                        if(item.value != " ")
                        {
                            var lbl = $(item.label);

                        return {

                                label: $(lbl).text(),
                                value: item.id
                            }
                        }
                    }));
                }
            });
        },

Answer 1

You response is not JSON. It’s HTML/String.

              success: function( data ) {
                        if(item.value != " ") {

                            ......
                            var html = $(item),
                                text = $('span#my-id-527114', html).text();

                        } else {

                            .....
                        }
                }