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

If you're open to using jQuery, it has some nice facilities for creating detached DOM elements from strings of HTML. These can then be queried through the usual means, E.g.:

var html = "test01test02test03";
var anchors = $('
').append(html).find('a').get();

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Edit - just saw @Florian's answer which is correct. This is basically exactly what he said, but with jQuery.