Use Jquery Selectors on $.AJAX loaded HTML?

Question

I have

$.ajax({
  url: identity,
  success: function(data) { ProcessIdentityServer(data) }
});

When \'data\' is returned, is there a way to

Answer 1

// Finds all div elements within an XML document from an AJAX response.
$("div", xml.responseXML);

Answer 2

You have to define a container first, to be able to get/modify the elements from the response:

 $.ajax({            
     url: url + "/ajax.htm",
     dataType: "html",
     success: function(html) {
         container = $('#ajax_content');
         container.html(html);
         container.find("a").css("background","red");
     }
 });

Answer 3

Sure you can use the $(data) function, one of the core jquery functions, to turn the returned html into DOM elements. Check out the docs online.