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Tim
Tim

Reputation: 3038

Parsing and selecting from HTML string

Using an ajax call I have returned the partialView HTML of a page, but before I display it I wish to pull information from the main div. This data is just size information, for if I create a floating window.

Code:

<div class="window-details" data-height="500px" data-width="500px">more data here</div>

this.PopUp = function (url, title) {
  $.ajax(url)
  .success(function (partialViewHtml) {
     var partialViewDom = $(partialViewHtml);
     var thisDiv = $(".window-details", partialViewDom);

I can see the data in chromes debugger when hovering over partialViewDom, but the class selection does not appear to have worked. Any clues? Does it not parse correctly? Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 112

Answers (2)

Kevin B
Kevin B

Reputation: 95056

Try using the .filter() instead, most likely your .window-details element is a top level element in the dom fragment.

var thisDiv = partialViewDom.filter(".window-details");

Upvotes: 2

chiborg
chiborg

Reputation: 28154

Your code searches for elements with the .window-details in the children of the div that was returned.

Upvotes: 0

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