jQuery Componentized String
HTML string to jQuery object
by klenwell
HTML
<div id="result"></div>
<p>source:
<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/16859718">https://stackoverflow.com/a/16859718</a>
</p>
JavaScript
var myString = "<div>Some stuff<div>Some more stuff<span id='theAnswer'>The stuff I am looking for</span></div></div>";
var $jQueryObject = $($.parseHTML(myString));
$("#result").append($jQueryObject);