jQuery - selectors on a html string

Question

I am going to get a element from a html-string with jQuery, but I always get an undefined in my console. My String is:

asd         


        

Answer 1

First, use jQuery.parseHTML to parse the HTML into an array of elements; then you’ll be able to convert it to a jQuery collection and use filter to restrict the collection to elements matching a selector.

var html =
    'asd' +
    'fgh' +
    'jkl';

var text = $($.parseHTML(html)).filter('.test').text();

console.log(text);