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Asked: 2026-06-01T11:34:26+00:00

This is a super simple question that I just can’t seem to find a

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This is a super simple question that I just can’t seem to find a good answer too.

$.get('/myurl.html', function(response){
     console.log(response); //works!
     console.log( $(response).find('#element').text() ); //null :(
}, 'html');

I am just trying to traverse my the html response. So far the only thing I can think of that would works is to regex to inside the body tags, and use that as a string to create my traversable jQuery object. But that just seems stupid. Anyone care to point out the right way to do this?

Maybe its my html? 

<html> 
    <head> 
       <title>Center</title> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
        <!-- tons-o-stuff -->
    </body>
</html>

This also works fine but will not suit my needs:

$(‘#myelem’).load(‘/myurl.html #element’);

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  1. Editorial Team

    It fails because it doesn’t like <html> and <body>.

    Using the method described here: A JavaScript parser for DOM

    $.get('/myurl.html', function(response){
     var doc = document.createElement('html');
     doc.innerHTML = response;

     console.log( $("#element", doc).text() );
}, 'html');

    I think the above should work.

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