I think you just need to supply the context to the query like so:
var popupContent = $('#foo', popupData);
Thatcher
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi, can anyone tell me how I can get part of a web page downloaded
> with $.get()? I thought it would be easy but ohhh no :( Here's a
> snippet:
>
> $("[EMAIL PROTECTED]").click(function()
> {
> $.get($(this).attr("href"), function(popUpData)
> {
> var popupContent = $(????);
> $.modal(popupContent );
> });
> return false;
> });
>
> At '????', I basically want to find the contents of a div in popUpData
> with an ID of foo as a string I can pass to a modal pop-up. The web
> page fetched is HTML 4.01 Strict.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Richard
>
> P.s. $.modal is: http://www.ericmmartin.com/projects/simplemodal/
>
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Christopher Thatcher
