jquery ajax parse response text

Question

Ok this is really frusturating me because I\'ve done this a hundred times before, and this time it isn\'t working. So I know I\'m doing something wrong, I just can\'t figur

Answer 1

Wanting to do the same thing and knowing that JQuery load(..) does it, I had a look in the code. While you can't turn a complete html response directly into a JQuery object, you can append it to one so:

function(data, textStatus, xhr) {
    $(target).html(jQuery("
").append(data).find("#snippet"));
    // Create a dummy div to hold the results,
    // inject the contents of the document into it,
    // Locate the specified elements
}

The response from the server that goes into data is like:

  
    ...
  
  
    

      
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