jQuery, Html element form external file to string in jquery, how?

Question

I am working on a project where i need to get a specific element from an external html file as a string in my jQuery.

As i understand the .get(); function cannot get a specific element (by class or ID) and the .load() can, but loads it directly into the dom of the file.

Is there another function or a way to go about this?

What i need to do is get a specific html element and replace some macros in it with data from an object and then append it to an element (multiple times.) Therefore i cannot just load it in and replace the macros afterwards.

Answer 1

You can .get it and then only subselect.

$.get('myfile.html', function(response) {
  var inside = $(response).find('#inner-id');
  // do stuff with inside...
});