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I've got a complete HTML document I'm pulling in with $.ajax(), and my .done() callback looks like this:
function (data, text_status, jq_xhr) {
var $what_i_want = $(data).find('#what-i-want');
}
where data is a string that contains the entirety of a well-formed HTML document. This code never reaches .find().
Upon $(data), I get:
`Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: <!DOCTYPE html>`...
The facts:
I've used jQuery() to objectify many an HTML string, so I'm surprised this isn't working. Admittedly, I don't recall ever trying a whole document. Given the error, I'm guessing, perhaps, I need to escape this string somehow. But I'm not sure how.
Incidentally, this works:
var $what_i_want = $('#what-i-want', $.parseHTML(data))
But I can't figure out why the first approach fails.
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I had this same issue in a case where it was working on all sorts of other pages. They key for me was reading Brian's link on the upgrade-guide. The issue was this one page had a single blank line before the so even though I was only attempting to insert a portion of the returned html, it was not considering the returned data to be html. From the upgrade guide
As of 1.9, a string is only considered to be HTML if it starts with a less-than ("<") character.
Since it started with a blank line and not < it was not considered to be html. Thought I would add this contribution since I spent forever trying to figure out what the issue was.
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DOCTYPE isn't an normal html tag; I think it would need to be removed.
It might have trouble with body as well, since you can't embed a whole document within another. IIRC the internal method in jquery is just creating a span on the fly and updating the innerHTML.
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