Question

Suppose i got returned some html in variable data.
In that variable i have

<h1> Title </h1>

Now i want to grab that text Title and remove <h1> Title </h1> from variable data

how can i achieve that in jquery

Answer 1

You could do $.parseXML()
to convert the string to an XML document and then run DOM manipulation using jQuery

var XML= $.parseXML(data);
var title = $(XML).find('h1').text(); //Get the text inside h1 tags.
$(XML).find('h1').remove(); // Remove the h1 tags 

http://jsfiddle.net/QNnLe/