How to use class selector on a jquery object?

Question

So I have my HTML inside a jquery object and want to grab an element by class from that object, I have the following code:

var feed = data.post.content;
var $newFeed = $(feed);
var stuff = $newFeed('.ERSIngredients').html();
console.log(stuff);

When I print $newFeed itself I can see this div with this class exist, but I'm always getting an error: "Uncaught TypeError: object is not a function"

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I think that you want:

var stuff = $newFeed.find('.ERSIngredients').html();

In other words, find a descendent of $newFeed with the class ERSINgredients and then get the html out of that.