how can I retrieve an html document from a url from javascript?
- by Matt
Hi,
I have a url and I want to retrieve the html dom generated when going to the url (all the code for the page) in a javascript variable.
How can I do this? I'm guessing an html get or post? Can anyone give an example with jQuery?
Every time I do a $.get or $.post like this:
$.get("http://www.google.ca", function(result) { alert(result); alert($(result).html()); });
$.post("http://www.google.ca", function(result) { alert(result); alert($(result).html()); }, "xml");
the first alert in each call comes up blank and the second comes up as null. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Matt
