Are you trying to get it while its in the variable? Maybe put the html into a dom element first, like
$("div#someHiddenDiv").append(str); thingyouwant = $("div#content").html(); Does this help? Glen On Dec 22, 2007 7:30 PM, psy* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a full html code in in a var: > > str = 'full html code here starting with <html>'; > > and now I want to get the innerHTML of a div with an certain id. I tried > that: > > $(var_name).filter('div#content').get(0).html() > > but that doesn't work. What's the right way?? > > thanks! >