Convert plain text in to HTML

Question

I have a script with which at a certain point I'm getting HTML(data) with Ajax call. I have to turn this HTML in to plain text like this:

$("#div").text(data);

I now want to turn this around and make the text HTML again. I there an easy Jquery method of doing this? I tried:

$("#div").text(data).end().html();

No luck.

Answer 1

You would need to hold onto the original response to do this...

$("#hiddendiv").html(data);
$("#div").text(data);

Then you could get it back out...

var html = $("#hiddendiv").html();

Update based on comment...

You can remove that element before you display it...

var html = $(data);
$('#cookiediv', html).hide();
$('#div').html(html);

Where the cookie message has id="cookiediv" - you may need to adjust the selector to get to this div, but it is almost certainly possible to grab it.