Can I use jQuery selectors on an HTML string that is not attached to the DOM?

Question

So if I have a variable like

var ht = \"
Paragraph Here
\"

If it was attached to the DOM I could

Answer 1

Just wrap your HTML String into a jQuery object, and then you can run your jQuery selectors from there:

var htmlString = "
Paragraph Here
";
var elements = $(htmlString);

var p = elements.filter('p').text();
console.log(p);
//=> Paragraph Here

Working demo here.