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JavaScript

var str= "<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=\"en\"><head>    <title>Home</title>    <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\">    <link href=\"/static/css/bootstrap.min.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" media=\"screen\"></head><body><div id=\"app-container\" class=\"container-fluid\">    <div class=\"page-header\">        <h1>            <a href=\"/\">Home</a>            <small>Text</small>        </h1>    </div>    <div id=\"hero-units\" class=\"carousel-inner slide\">        <div class=\"hero-unit home item active\">            <h1>                Text text text            </h1>            <p>                More text!            </p>            <div id=\"app-nav\">                <a id=\"lets-go\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-large nav-forward\" href=\"/what-up/\">                    Let's go                </a>            </div>        </div>    </div></div></body></html>";

var tempDom = $('<output>').append($.parseHTML(str));
var appContainer = $('#app-container', tempDom);
console.log(tempDom, appContainer[0])