JQuery Load Nested Elements

http://stackoverflow.com/q/26020063/1144203

by Ivan Sim

HTML

<div id="target"></div>

JavaScript

// html to be echo-ed back and loaded into target
var some_html = '<div id="extern">Some un-enclosed text<br /><div id="intern">Some text in a div</div><span>Some text in a span</span></div>';
$("#target").load('/echo/html/ #extern > *', {html: some_html}, function(){
    console.log($("#target").html()); // missing 'Some un-enclosed text'
    $("#target").css('background-color', 'red');
});