Question

in jQuery statement:

    $.get(someurl, function (data) {
            ###
        });

I receiving something like:

<div class="somediv">john smith</div>

question is: how to jQuery read this data html $(“div.somediv”).text() in function response where ### is placed?

I need to read div text through div class name, because I can have a multiple divs with different class names

Answer 1

if data == '<div class="somediv">john smith</div>'

then this should just work

$(data).text()

if data has a bunch of other html you can always filter after making it a jQuery object

var text = $(data).filter('div.somediv').text();    

if you need to do a selection later on, you can add it to the body like this

var $data = $(data)
$data.length && $(body).append($data.css('display','none'));

and later select like

$('div.somediv').text()