Find element at HTML string

Question

Let\'s suppose I have

var testHTML = \"
\";

I want to get above div as JQuery object

Answer 1

You could use the .search() function of the javascript itself.

testHTML.search('demo_div')>-1

Answer 2

The problem is that your div is the root element in the collection, so you need to use .filter() instead of .find() (which only looks at descendant elements):

var found = $(testHTML).filter("#demo_div");

I'm assuming your actual HTML string is more complex than the one in the question, otherwise you don't need to do anything other than $(testHTML) and you will have a jQuery object containing that single element.