jQuery 1.8.1 .load html>body

Question

$("#loader").load(someurl, null, function ()
{
    var html = $("#loader").html(); 
    alert(html);  //works 
});

however,

$("#loader").load(someurl, "body", function ()
{
    var html = $("#loader").html(); 
    alert(html);  //does NOT work 
});

I try to fetch external host html data on phonegap/cordova.

filetransfer.download API does not work well for me for html fetching, and I found jQuery .load function works well and think it's uselful because file management isn't involved but only memory.

A problem is, since whole HTML is once load on some $("#loader"), css/style-sheet for html.body layer conflicts and messes.

Therefore, I try to fetch only body part of html http://api.jquery.com/load/

.load( url [, data] [, complete(responseText, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest)] )

however, [, data] option never works.

"html>body" does not work, or any selectors doen't seem to work.

Is this bug??

Answer 1

The selector should be appended to the url (separated by a space).

$("#loader").load(someurl + ' body', function (){
    var html = $("#loader").html(); 
    alert(html);
});