Getting inner html with jQuery?

Question

I have a javascript/jQuery block as a callback after $.get function:

function myCallBack(data, textStatus) {
  var text1 = $(data).html();
  document.write(text1);
}

The data contains html data ok. I'd like to strip the html and get only inner html into text1 variable. For some reason it doesn't work. Firebug kinda "crashes" upon executing line 'var text1 = ...'

Edited:

My data variable contains:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "w3.org/TR/xhtml1/…;\r\n\r\n<html xmlns="w3.org/1999/xhtml">;\r\n
<head>\r\n 
<title></title>\r\n
</head>\r\n
<body>\r\n Testing...\r\n</body>\r\n
</html>\r\n

And I'd like to parse the part between body tags.

Just tried. var text1 = data.innerHTML; Returns "undefined". — Pompair
– Pompair, Commented Jul 6, 2009 at 9:59

Andreas Grech · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-06 10:31:21Z

6

You mean you want the inner text?

var text1 = $(data).text();

[Update]

Try it with this regular expression:

var bodyText = new RegExp(/<body[^>]*>([\S\s]*?)<\/body>/).exec(data)[1];

edited Jul 6, 2009 at 10:31

answered Jul 6, 2009 at 9:18

Andreas Grech

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Pompair Over a year ago

Thank you for an answer. That doesn't work for me however, it returns empty string. My data variable contains: "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">\r\n\r\n<html xmlns="w3.org/1999/xhtml">\r\n<head>\r\n <title></title>\r\n</head>\r\n<body>\r\n Testing...\r\n</body>\r\n</html>\r\n" And I'd like to parse the part between <body> and </body> tags.

Pompair Over a year ago

Thanks for an answer. with find&html() returns null and with find&text() returns "". (an empty string)

Andreas Grech Over a year ago

im trying to find a solution atm for this

Andreas Grech Over a year ago

posted a solution with a regexp

Gumbo · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-06 10:08:42Z

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Try this:

$(data)[1].data

But I think that just works with a specific example and not in general.

answered Jul 6, 2009 at 10:08

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Mathias F · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-06 10:15:17Z

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You perform a webrequest by get. That implies that the result will only be a string.

var text1 = data ;

Is all you can get. There is no DOM-object you can traverse. You only get this if you access elements on you own page.

answered Jul 6, 2009 at 10:15

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