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HTML
<p id="data">data here</p>
<p id="wtf">hi</p>
CSS
p {
border: 1px solid red;
}
JavaScript
var html= '<!DOCTYPE html><head><title><\/title><link href="../css/popup.css" rel="stylesheet" /><\/head><body><ul><li><a class="disabled" id="link">content<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/body><\/html>';
h = $.parseHTML(html);
$('#data').text(h);
$('#wtf').html($(h).find('#link').text());