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Answer 1

+4 A:

You could just strip out the html tags, and then put everything inside the html element:

$('html').html(myString.replace(/<html>(.*)<\/html>/, "$1"));

Marius 2009-08-06 00:08:38

Thanks but this doesn't work. No matter what value I try, the result of `$('html').html(somevalue)` is a blank page with an empty DOM (in IE).

Ken Browning 2009-08-06 02:50:20

Ken Browning 2009-08-06 02:53:10

Answer 2

+5 A:

The document.open/write/close methods will do what you want:

document.open();
document.write(myString);
document.close();

Jon Benedicto 2009-08-06 00:12:10

Thanks, this works perfectly. Do you happen to know if this behaves differently in any non-ie browsers?

Ken Browning 2009-08-06 02:52:40

Since these have been part of the DOM for a very long time, I'd expect them to work correctly across all modern browsers.

Jon Benedicto 2009-08-06 03:16:45

Replace the entire HTML node using jQuery