I have a var that contains a full
html page, including the head,
html, body, etc. When I pass that string into the .html() function, jQuery strips out all those elements, such as body,
html, head, etc, which I don't want.
My data var contains:
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
// data is a full
html document string
data = $('<div/>').html(data);
// jQuery stips my document string!
alert(data.find('head').html());
I am needing to manipulate a full
html page string, so that I can return what is in the element. I would like to do this with jQuery, but it seems all of the methods, append(), prepend() and html() all try to convert the string to dom elements, which remove all the other parts of a full
html page.
Is there another way that I could do this? I would be fine using another method. My final goal is to find certain elements inside my string, so I figured jQuery would be best, since I am so used to it. But, if it is going to trim and remove parts of my string, I am going to have to look for another method.
Ideas?
