You could do this:
jQuery('<div/>').html(data).find('li').appendTo('#el');
--John
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Toxane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi. I'm porting a Mootools script to jQuery. Basically I need to
> extract some data from existing data. In Mootools, I did it like this:
>
> This creates a new element with some HTML :
> tmpData = new Element('div').setHTML(htmlData);
>
> This extracts all <li>*</li> from tmpData :
> $E('li', tmpData ).injectInside($('el));
>
> I tried :
> jQuery('<div id="tmpData">'+data+'</div>');
> jQuery('#tmpData').find('li').append('el');
>
> which does not work for me because '+data+' contains the same elements
> which are on the page. I feel that the extraction actually works (I
> get no error message) but after being appended to the div 'tmpData'.
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks.
>
