How to get a HTML element from a string with jQuery
Yes, you can turn the string into elements, and select elements from it. Example:
var elements = $(theHtmlString);var found = $('.FindMe', elements);
Just wrap the html text in the $ function. Like
$("<div>I want this element</div>")
If you are loading a page dynamically from a server then you can target just one element from the loaded page using the following form with .load()
$(selectorWhereToShowNewData).load('pagePath selectorForElementFromNewData');For example:
$('#result').load('ajax/test.html #container');Where:#result is where the loaded page part will be displayed on the current pageajax/test.html is the URL to which the server request is sent#container is the element on the response page you want to display. Only that will be loaded into the element #result. The rest of the response page will not be displayed.