Question

I need to find input value in a string, it should look something like this:

var someHtml = "some text, <div id='somediv'></div> <input type='text' value='somethin' />";

$(someHtml).find('input').val();

this ofcourse doesn’t work so how can i do that?

Answer 1

First you need to escape the double quotes or use single quotes in someHtml string which I don’t think so is the same in actual case but still. And instead of using find you have to use siblings because input is the sibling inside $(someHtml) or wrap the whole html inside a div and then can use find method.

Try this.

$(someHtml).siblings('input').val();

Alternatively you can use this too.

$(someHtml).wrap('<div />').parent().find('input').val();

Demo