Jquery/javascript, filtering html object from ajax response

Question

I have this piece of html:

  

     Text for div 2 
  
         


        
      

Answer 1

If you don't need any special functionality given by the full $.ajax method, you should give $.load() a try:

The .load() method, unlike $.get(), allows us to specify a portion of the remote document to be inserted. This is achieved with a special syntax for the url parameter. If one or more space characters are included in the string, the portion of the string following the first space is assumed to be a jQuery selector that determines the content to be loaded.

$('#result').load('ajax/test.html #container');

http://api.jquery.com/load/#loading-page-fragments