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Asked: 2026-06-15T01:15:07+00:00

Let’s suppose I have var testHTML = <div id=’demo_div’></div>; I want to get above

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Let’s suppose I have

var testHTML = "<div id='demo_div'></div>";

I want to get above div as JQuery object to manipulate with it. I try to find it with:

 var found = $(testHTML).find("#demo_div");

and with:

 var found = $(testHTML).find("div");

Both without luck. I have empty found variable. What am I do wrong?

P.S. Yes I know I can have direct access to my div with 

$("#demo_div")

but I can’t do it in my case – I need to get it from plain HTML that will be assigned to some variable just like in my example with testHTML var.

UPDATE:
Even if I have not root div element like here:

var testHTML = "<html><div id='demo_div'></div></html>";

I can’t use find for navigating div element.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is that your div is the root element in the collection, so you need to use .filter() instead of .find() (which only looks at descendant elements):

    var found = $(testHTML).filter("#demo_div");

    I’m assuming your actual HTML string is more complex than the one in the question, otherwise you don’t need to do anything other than $(testHTML) and you will have a jQuery object containing that single element.

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