Question

This is the first thing I write in javascript, so I hope its a basic error

What I’m trying to achieve here:
Take a bunch of links from a page, load their contents query for links inside and add them to a list on current page.

I get error on the append
And in JQ documentation they say the method can get a JQ object

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        var wtf = $(".download");
        var links = $("a", wtf)
        links.each(function (index) {
            var newFrame = document.createElement("div");
            $(newFrame).load($(this).context.href, function (response, status, xhr) {
                if (status == "error") {
                    alert("error");
                }
                $("a", response).each(function (index) {
                    $("#results").append($(this));
                });
            });
            //  $("#results").append(newFrame);
        });
    });
</script>

Answer 1

Let’s see if my guessing error checking abilities are good enough for this:

// No point really in using context here.
// This would be better, or at least more readable
var links = $(".download a");

// No need to add in the argument if you're not actually going to use it
links.each(function() {
    // Doing this will get you create the jQuery object
    // without having to use the DOM createElement method
    var newFrame = $('<div />');

    // this.href is shorter and neater
    newFrame.load(this.href, {
        'html': '.ajax'
    }, function(response, status, xhr) {
        if (status == "error") {
            console.log(xhr);
        }

        // This is the odd part - response is a selector?
        // This should loop through each anchor that are a child
        // Of the element selected by the response receieved
        // Using appendTo here is better than looping through
        // each element and using .append() there
        $(response).find("a").appendTo("#results");

        // And finally of course because this is .load()
        // Remember that the actual response is also
        // appeneded to the element in question,
        // hence the extra .ajax appearing there
    });

    // This occures outside of callback,
    // so it's actually executed *before* the code above
    $("#results").append(newFrame);
});

See jsfiddle for this piece of code actually working: http://jsfiddle.net/E589q/4/