AJAX read specific id tag & count tag in external html

[Lu5ck]

Hi all,

How do you read specific div id in a external html returned from resposnetext?
Also, is it possible to count how many div tag are there in the resposnetext?

Been googling and can't find any help to this...

[acoder]

If you add it to the page, you can use document.getElementById().

[Lu5ck]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.

To be precise, I wanted to retrieve a specific id tag from responsetext. For example, in that html, there is a <div> tag that goes by id "hello". I want to retrieve the content in that <div> tag and put it up on the page.

BTW, how to use regular expression to count the amount of matched content?

Thanks & Regards,

[acoder]

OK, I was giving you the easy solution. If you want to use regular expressions, match a div with id "hello" and grab its content with (), e.g. :

/<div id="hello" [^>]*>(.*?)<\/div>/

(not tested)