Question

I’m not sure if I worded the title correctly.

Basically is it possible to treat a string as HTML as if it was on the page? So I can use $(“#elem”) and all the other jQuery functions?

The HTML is loaded into a string from an ajax request and stored in a string. Instead of using regular expressions to access the data needed is it possible to use jQuery functions?

ajaxTextResponse.$("#telephone");

I know the above won’t work, but you see what I am getting at.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you feed HTML in the form of a string jQuery will do its best to parse it:

success:function(data) {
    $('#el', data).appendTo('body')
}

An example of extracting #el when it’s a child of some other element.