Select content from JQuery ajax return object

Question

As I understand it, the JQuery load() function retrieves a document and can perform the quivelent of:

$(\'#somecontenttograb\').html()

upon it.

Answer 1

If the url you are requesting returns html you can use selectors on it:

$.ajax({
    url: '/test.html',
    success: function(result) {
        // select an element that has id=someElement in the returned html
        var someElement = $(result).find('#someElement');
        // TODO: do something with the element
    }
});