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Uzair
Uzair

Reputation: 135

Stripping content from HTML page returned through ajax

Is there a way to display specific text out of a HTML page which was returned by an ajax call? By specific text, I mean the first paragraph/div of the HTML page returned.

By using $.load in jquery, I am able to fetch the page. How do I proceed from here.

Is it even possible to implement this using jQuery alone, without parsing html at the back end , and returning selected text as the response from my server.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 70

Answers (3)

Mat Richardson
Mat Richardson

Reputation: 3606

$.load returns the whole html page unless you specify a fragment of it (as seen in another answer here). You might be better off using $.get or $.ajax and then dealing with the returned data using a function:-

E.g. using ajax

$.ajax({
   url: "your url here",
   success: function(data) {
      //Do something with your data (ie the returned html).
   }
})

Upvotes: 0

Govind Malviya
Govind Malviya

Reputation: 13753

$.get("/mypage.html",function(html){
    var fisrtdiv = $('div',$(html)).first();
});

Upvotes: 0

Arun P Johny
Arun P Johny

Reputation: 388316

.load() accepts a selector which can be used to specify the fragment of the page to be appended

$('#x').load('page.html div:eq(0)')

Demo: Plunker

Upvotes: 2

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