Question

In my js I have a var in which I have stored innerHTML.
The var is having value something like

                <h2>headline</h2>
                <div>....</div>
                 ...........

Now I want to retrieve value of h2 tag..what I am doing is

           $(myvar).find("h2").text()

but its not working…what should be the exact syntax?
EDIT:

                 alert(myvar)=<h2>headline</h2>
                               <div>....</div>

Thanks.

Answer 1

The find method will not work for this case, because it gets the descendants of each element in the current set of matched elements (the h2 and the div in your example).

You can simply use filter (available on jQuery 1.3.2):

var myvar ="<h2>headline</h2>" +
           "<div>....</div>";

alert($(myvar).filter('h2').text()); // headline

Check an example here.