Parse an HTML string with JS

Question

I searched for a solution but nothing was relevant, so here is my problem:

I want to parse a string which contains HTML text. I want to do it in JavaScript.

Answer 1

Create a dummy DOM element and add the string to it. Then, you can manipulate it like any DOM element.

var el = document.createElement( 'html' );
el.innerHTML = "test01test02test03";

el.getElementsByTagName( 'a' ); // Live NodeList of your anchor elements

Edit: adding a jQuery answer to please the fans!

var el = $( '
' );
el.html("test01test02test03");

$('a', el) // All the anchor elements