Thanks Adras, however, if you don't specifiy "testHTML" as an argument
to $() then JQuery will function against the DOM instead of the
content of a variable. The way your doing things looks like your
trying to inject the contents of "testGetHTML" into the ".targetMe"
element. Unless I'm mistaken.
On Apr 21, 8:31 am, András Csányi <sayusi.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/21 default_user <ayapej...@gmail.com>:
>
>
>
> > I'm trying to get jquery to parse some text in a variable as HTML, has
> > anyone tried this before and got it to work? Can this even be done,
> > or do I have to parse as text?
>
> > <CODE>
>
> > testHTML = "<html><head></head><body><ul><li class='targetMe'>TESTING</
> > li></ul></body></html>";
>
> > testGetHTML = $(".targetMe", testHTML).html();
>
> > alert( testGetHTML );
>
> > </CODE>
>
> Maybe I'm wrong, but the testHTML variable place is in the html
> function, isn't? For example:
> testGetHTML = $(".targetMe").html(testHTML);
> Or I missunderstood what is your problem... :)
>
> András
>
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