Quick-n-dirty way: use .eq(0).innerHTML instead of .eq(0) .
But, what might probably work better is if you cloned the node and
inserted it into #myContent (assuming that it winds up as valid DOM that
way).
- Brian
> Hi
> this is what I have
>
> jQuery.get(item_link,function(item_content){
>
> var new_content =
> jQuery(item_content).filter("#contentpane .contentpane > p").eq(0);
>
> jQuery("#myContent").html(new_content).slideDown("slow");
> });
>
> What I imagine this code should be doing is extract the first
> paragraph from the item_content and fill the #mycontent with this
> first paragraph.
>
> But what I get it nothing in this #mycontent.
>
> Can someone please point me to what I am I doing wrong. I intent to
> extract the first paragraph from
> #contentpane .contentpane element.
>
> thanks
>
>
