jQuery .get数据操作

Question

I am using below code to get a page:

$.get('http://example.com/page1.html', function (data) {

});

Now lets imagine there is a #content div inside that page1.html and I need to read it's inner html as I already have #content div on page where Ajax call is occurring.

What is the right way to do this? I've tried with:

data = $(data).find('#content').html();
$("#content").empty().append(data);

But it seems that html() function is not the right one as it returns null, while contents() is returning data but I am not skillful enough to get only what I need from it.

Any help appreciated, thanks!!

Answer 1

this code

data = $(data).find('#content').html();

return null when data is

var data ="<div id='content'>my data</div>";

because #content already parent, if data is

var data ="<div><div id='content'>my data</div><div>";

then return exact html because this time #content is child and you can .find() this in parent div.