Firstly, sorry for my English (I'm from China).
By reading this article(how to apply jQuery element selection to a string variable), I can successfully get Elements from a String which stores HTML text. For example:
var htmlstr = "<div><ul><li>some text 1</li></ul></div><div><ul id=list><li>some text 2</li></ul></div>";
var s = $('ul#list', $(htmlstr)).html();
s
will be <li>some text 2</li>
. It's what I want.
But the question is, if I want to add another LI element to this string (htmlstr) how can I do?
I set s
= new html string but htmlstr
doesn't change.
Thanks
You can do it like this in a bit less code:
var htmlstr = "<div><ul><li>some text 1</li></ul></div><div><ul id='list'><li>some text 2</li></ul></div>";
htmlstr = $("<div />").html(htmlstr).find("ul#list").append("<li>New Item</li>").end().html();
alert(htmlstr);
Just change that find selector and/or the append text if you want to stick the element in a different place.
I think it's possible to select the ul and append the new li, with the following method: http://api.jquery.com/append/
I'm not sure if this is the best way but what about this:
var htmlstr = "<div><ul><li>some text 1</li></ul></div><div><ul id=list><li>some text 2</li></ul></div>";
// make sure you choose a suitable Id here that won't conflict
$('body').append('<div id="test" style="display: none;">' + htmlstr + '</div>');
$test = $('#test');
$test.find('ul').append('<li>new</li>');
htmlstr = $test.html();
// clean up the DOM
$test.remove();
var s = $('ul#list', $(htmlstr)).html();
Basically, you insert the HTML into the DOM, append the new list item and then get the resulting HTML back and remove the elements you added.