jquery select elements from html data

Question

i use the jquery get to fetch some plain html content form a file. In the file if have several div elements and depending on the page 1 of the has to be shown.

I have a workaround for the moment where i just load all the data en than hide the div's i don't need, but i looking for a better way.

the code for the moment

      $.get(urlInfo + "xxxxxxx.html", function(data){
   $("#contentArea").append(data );
   $("#contentArea > #popupInfo").hide();
  })

so is there a way i can just directly select the div i need from the 'data' variable.

tnx

Answer 1

You could always use

var myDiv = $(data).find('#theDivIWant');
$('#contentArea').append(data);