Extract DOM Node from HTML String, Result as HTML String

Question

Given

var html = "<html><body><p>Hello, World!</p><p>Ciao!</p></body></html>";

I would like to extract the inner HTML of the body tag (Hello, World!Ciao!).

.find() finds the body DOM node

var body = $(html).find("body");

but I cannot find a means to get the inner HTML of that node. I tried:

var text = body.text(); //  returns ""
var var = body.var(); // returns undefined

How can I get a string representation of the <body> tag's inner HTML?

Then I believe this is the explanation for why it is not working: stackoverflow.com/questions/2488839/…. Here's a demo; in Chrome everything is stripped except the two  tags. — aroth
– aroth, Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 4:24

Luis Tellez · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-12 04:29:18Z

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You could use substring, get the index of and the index of and make a substring with what is inside.

var bot = html.indexOf("<body>");
var top= html.indexOf("</body>");
var body=html.substring(bot,top);

edited Feb 12, 2013 at 4:29

answered Feb 12, 2013 at 4:23

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charlietfl · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-12 04:25:44Z

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jQuery will strip the html and body tags out when you wrap the string in $().

Therefore you can do this:

var str=$('<div>').append($(html)).html()

DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/LxdrM/

answered Feb 12, 2013 at 4:25

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aroth Over a year ago

Correct, except that it doesn't appear to be jQuery that is doing it. See stackoverflow.com/questions/2488839/…

user2049150 · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-12 04:25:54Z

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You could try body[0].innerHTML()

answered Feb 12, 2013 at 4:25

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user2049150 Over a year ago

var body = $(html).find("body"); will return an array of elements. Use body[0] to get the element and call the innerHTML function on it.

Mr_Green · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-12 04:55:23Z

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As you want to show the string representation, it will be better to keep the html in a div element (or any other element inside the body tag) instead of body tag itself. For string representation, use TextArea which is what also SO is using.

Working fiddle

$(function(){
   var body = $('html').find('div'); 
   var text = body.html(); 
   $("#textArea").val(text);
});

HTML

<html>
     <body>
        <div><p>Hello, World!</p>
             <p>Ciao!</p>
        </div>
        <textarea id="textArea" name="post-text" cols="92" rows="15" tabindex="101">
        </textarea>
     </body>    
 </html>

edited Feb 12, 2013 at 4:55

answered Feb 12, 2013 at 4:49

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Eric J. Over a year ago

Unfortunately I have no control over the HTML fragment. It does not have a single tag that contains the rest of the tags inside the body.

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