Question

I’m trying to use the $.get() function to load a portion of a website into a variable to us later. The code I currently have is:

$(document).ready(function(){
var container;
function loadData(data, targetVar) {
  container = data;
}

$.get('page.html#div', loadData(container));

the problem is the callback function keeps firing before the page loads leaving the variable with an undefined value.

Answer 1

If you just want to load part of the remote document, you could use .load method.

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('#container_id').load('page.html #div');
}