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

It's quite simple:

var parser = new DOMParser();
var htmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(txt, 'text/html');
// do whatever you want with htmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('a');

According to MDN, to do this in chrome you need to parse as XML like so:

var parser = new DOMParser();
var htmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(txt, 'text/xml');
// do whatever you want with htmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('a');

It is currently unsupported by webkit and you'd have to follow Florian's answer, and it is unknown to work in most cases on mobile browsers.

Edit: Now widely supported