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Asked: 2026-05-18T21:47:01+00:00

Is it possible to parse a complete HTML document as a complete jQuery object?

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Is it possible to parse a complete HTML document as a complete jQuery object? When I try, e.g.

var $tmp = $("<html><head><title>title</title></head><body><p id='test'>test</p></body></html>");
console.log($tmp);

I get:

[+] [title, p#test] []

i.e. an array combining all of the head’s children with all of the body’s. Is it not possible to retain the structure, including the html, head, and body elements?

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  1. Editorial Team

    jquery strips out html and body as there can only be one html and body in a document. Brian’s answer is the closest you can get, but only on non IE browser as IE don’t parse non html tag.

    For example:

    var test = "<test>This is it</test>";
alert($(test).html());  // display This is it in non IE browser (working in 8-9?).

    EDIT:
    How about replacing html and body with div class=html/body?

    var test = "<html><body><div>this is a test</div></body></html>";
test = test.replace(/(\/body|\/html)/i, "\/div")
           .replace(/html/i, "div class='html'")
           .replace(/body/i, "div class='body'");
console.log($(test));
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