I have a var that contains a full html page, including the head, html, body, etc. When I pass that string into the .html() function, jQuery strips out all those elements, s
Here is a solution, which will include the body, head and other attributes: mydoc = document.getElementById('NAME_OF_PREVIEW_FRAME').contentWindow.document; mydoc.write(HTML_CODE); mydoc.close();
There is no need for the container div.
Have you tried this?:
var foo = $(data); // data is your full html document string
Then you can search inside of it like so:
$('.someClass', foo); // foo is the document you created earlier
Update:
As another answered mentioned, how this will act comes down to the browser.
I looked at the jQuery docs a bit and found this:
When the HTML is more complex than a single tag without attributes, as it is in the above example, the actual creation of the elements is handled by the browser's
innerHTML
mechanism. Specifically, jQuery creates a new<div>
element and sets theinnerHTML
property of the element to the HTML snippet that was passed in.
So it seems that when you are using a whole html doc as a string, it's no different than setting the innerHTML
property of a div
you make using createElement
.
Nope, the jQuery html
function is just sending the string through to the element's innerHTML
property, which is a function of the browser that tells it to parse the HTML into DOM elements and add them to the page.
Your browser doesn't work with a page as HTML data, it works with it as DOM and imports/exports HTML.
JavaScript has very good Regular Expression support. Depending on the complexity of your task, you may find this is the best way to process your data.
After a few quick tests it seems do me that this behavior isn't caused by jQuery but instead by the browser.
As you can easily verify yourself (DEMO http://jsbin.com/ocupa3)
var data = "<html><head><title>Untitled Document</title></head><body><p>test</p></body></html>";
data = $('<div/>').html(data);
alert(data.html());
yields different results in different browsers
Opera 10.10
<HEAD><TITLE>Untitled Document</TITLE></HEAD><P>test</P>
FF 3.6
<title>Untitled Document</title><p>test</p>
IE6
<P>test</P>
so this has nothing to do with jQuery, It's the browsers which strip some tags when you insert a whole html string inside a div. But you would need to step through the whole jQuery code for html()
to be sure. And you would need to do that for all browsers as there are several different ways jQuery tries to do it's job.
For a solution I advise you to investigate using an iframe (possibly hidden) and to set that iframe content to the html-string you have. But be aware that fiddling with iframes and changing their content programmatically isn't an easy task either. There are also different browser related quirks and timing issues involved.