In jQuery, how do I do DOM navigation on a string?

Question

I'm in the callback function of a jQuery get, and so have the html of the page I got as a string variable. How can I create a page object from that html so that I can perform jQuery traversing functions on it, it pull bits out?

Answer 1

You should be able to add it to an element already on your page like this:

var cont = document.getElementById('container');

cont.innerHTML = yourString;

The elements will automatically be added to the DOM once they're processed and added to the container, you should then be able to reference the new elements through JS.