jQuery Selector inside of variable?

Question

Hi I'm trying to get the IDs of all DIVs, inside another HTML File, with a specific Class. To load the file I use:

$.get("blocks.html", function(data) {
        //here I don't know how :)
});

Now what I'm looking for ist something like this:

data.$('.block').each(... the rest is no problem

so that I use the jQuery selectors not on my page code but instead inside the contend of the data variable. Thanks for help!

Answer 1

$.get("blocks.html", function(data) {
    var ids = $('<div/>').html(data).find('div.block').map(function() {
        return this.id;
    }).get();
});

Answer 2

Try this:

$.get("blocks.html", function(data) {
        $(data).find('.block').each(function(){...});
});

If your 'data html' containing element is a '.block', look at @undefined's answer