Question

This’ll probably be easy for someone:

var x = '<p>blah</p><div><a href="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=brd&FlightID=2997227&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=9088" target="_blank"><img src="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=bsr&FlightID=2997227&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=9088" border=0 width=300 height=250></a></div>';

How do I extract only the portion between the div tags <div>I want this</div>
Don’t focus on the <a> tag as the content could be different inside the div.

Answer 1

This is probably what you need:

$('div').html();

demo

This says get the div and return all the contents inside it. See more here: http://api.jquery.com/html/

If you had many divs on the page and needed to target just one, you could set an id on the div and call it like so

$('#whatever').html();

where whatever is the id

EDIT

Now that you have clarified your question re this being a string, here is a way to do it with vanilla js:

var l = x.length;
var y = x.indexOf('<div>');
var s = x.slice(y,l);
alert(s);

Demo Here

1. get the length of the string.
2. find out where the first div occurs
3. slice the content there.