Kind of: $.get('page.htm', function(closet){ $(closet).find('stuff').hide(); //or $('stuff', closet).appendTo('#trash'); });
You're not creating any temporary DIV, just passing the HTML string to jQuery which will parse it and turn it into actual elements. On Jan 27, 6:25 pm, zunama <jjm....@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the best way to work with HTML data returned on an AJAX call. > > Want to do something like this but I know it doesn't work. Do I need > to stick the data into a temp div and then work with it? > > function (data) > { > $(data).find("....."); > > } > > Thanks