How to get a selected div portion from a variable containing html code by using javascript?

Question

I have a variable var 'html', it contains some html codes .in it there is a div with id messages. I want to get only that div contents from the 'html' variable into another variable using javascript.
Please help . .

Answer 1

The easiest way with jQuery in my opinion:

var message = $('<div />').append(html).find('#message').text();
                                                      //.html();