Navigate a rootless dom with JQuery

Question

Given this html string:

var string = \"
\";

I create a jQuery object with it:

var dom          


        

Answer 1

When there's no root element you'll need to use filter() to get top level elements:

var string = "
";
var $dom = $(string).appendTo('body'); // appendTo() is only for purposes of this demo
$dom.filter("p").text('hello world!');