jquery .load() page then parse html

Question

Hi,

I have used the line below in my app. But now I need to parse the html loaded before I show it. Whats the best way to get certain html elements.

$("#div").load("page.html");

Thanks

UPDATED

Now I am using this but having trouble geting the title attribute of a div with the id "div".

function get_title()
{
    $.get("test.html", function(data) {
        var data = $(data);
        var title = $("#div", data).attr("title");

        alert(title);
    });
}

The html in the var data looks like this.

<div id="div" title="title example">
<p>
    Content
</p>
<p>
    Content
</p>
</div>

Thanks again

Answer 1

Instead of calling .load(), you should call $.get to perform an AJAX request and manually process the response.

Answer 2

You can use the semi-equivalent expanded version of $.get(), like this:

$.get("page.html", success: function(data) {
  var data = $(data);
  //do something
  $("#div").html(data);
});

Note that calling .html(data) in this case is just a shortcut for .empty().append(data).

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Or, if post-processing is an option, just use the .load() callback, like this:

$("#div").load("page.html", function() {
  $(this).find(".class").remove(); //just an example
});

Answer 3

jQuery.ajax({
    url:'your_url',
    type:'get',
    dataType:'html',
    success:function(data)
   { 
       var _html= jQuery(data);
       //do some thing with html eg: _html.find('div').addClass('red')
       jQuery('#target').html(_html);
   }
});