Reading a portion of the ajax html response

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible, but you need to make a jQuery object out of it first.

Change this line:

alert (results.find("div[id='content']").html());

to this:

alert ( $(results).find("div[id='content']").html() );

or, better yet, to this:

alert ( $(results).find("#content").html() );

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EDIT:

Looks like if the element you want is a direct child of body, you'll need to use .filter() instead since the body seems to be excluded from the jQuery object. Looks like just its contents are included.

alert ( $(results).filter("#content").html() );

Answer 2

what about this?

$("#content", results).html()