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
You cannot pull in an entire XHTML document. You can only handle tags that exist within the <body>
of an html document. Frustrating. Strip everything from info.html that isn't within your <body>
tag and try it again.
There are other potential ways around this issue - check below "Stackoverflow Related Items" at the base of this response.
From the Doc: (http://docs.jquery.com/Core/jQuery#htmlownerDocument)
"HTML string cannot contain elements that are invalid within a div, such as html, head, body, or title elements."
I know this is an old post but I've been having the EXACT same frustrating problem for a couple of hours and have found a solution. For me what actually worked was to have the html content wrapped with a form tag.
So having the following html source:
<html>
<head>
<body>
<form>
<div id="content">Some Stuff</div>
</form>
</body>
</head>
</html>
With this jquery snippet should work:
var callback = function (data) {
alert($("#content", $(data)).html());
};
$.get(url, null, callback, null);
Hope this helps...
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("<div>").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:
<! doctype ... >
<html>
<head>
...
</head>
<body>
<div id="snippet">
<p>Some content here that we are interested in</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Try including whole body within a <div>
tag, e.g. <body><div>content</div></body>
.
I have found this being pretty clean solution:
var elementInResponse = $("<div>").html(responseText).find(selector);