Question

In my JavaScript code I have a string that contains something like:

var html = "<div class='outer'><div id='inner'>lots more html in here</div></div>";

I need to convert this to the string

var html = "<div id='inner'>lots more html in here</div>";

I’m already using using jQuery in my project, so I can use this to do it if necessary.

Answer 1

Try:

var html = "<div class='outer'>" 
         + "<div id='inner'>lots more html in here</div></div>";

html = $(html).html();

alert(html);

http://jsfiddle.net/TTEwm/