Cannot get body element from ajax response

Question

The response is a HTML document (from a request from a link's href)

 var data = $(response).find('body').html();
 alert(data);  

 // I get a alert with nothing...

full code:

     $.ajax({
       url: $(this).attr('href'),
       type: 'GET',      
       success: function(response){
         var data = $(response).find('body').html();
         alert(data);  
        }
     });

Answer 1

Try it this way:

var $dom = $(document.createElement("html"));
$dom[0].innerHTML = response;

var $body = $dom.find("body");