how to parse returned page html with jQuery.get()

Question

I was until recently using $.load() to get a specific piece of another page and load it into the current one, but as the user initiates those requests they can queue up and I found myself needing a way to abort them lest click-happy users break my page.

This led me to $.get() which works great and lets me abort the request if another is launched before the first returns, but now I need to parse the returned html (it's an entire page with doc-type and head elements) and only get one div from it.

How do I achieve this?

Answer 1

This should work:

$.get('ajax/test.html', function(data) {
    var my_div = $('#my_div', $(data));
});