jQuery: select element from parsed html snippet
javascript
Solution
You can use `filter` in this case:
$('<input type="radio" name="society" value="existing"><select class="society"></select></input><input type="radio" name="society" value="existing"><input type="text"></input></input>').filter(function() {
return $(this).is('select.society')
})
Reason being that if you were to use `find` you would need to from the parent element of your `<select>`, otherwise you are directly searching the elements and not from above them.
Problem
Inside a class method I parse a html snippet like this: ``` this.editCtrl = $('<input type="radio" name="society" value="existing"><select class="society"></select></input><input type="radio" name="society" value="existing"><input type="text"></input></input>'); ``` I can add this snippet to my DOM and everything works fine, but before doing so I would like to fill the drop down. I tried to get it like this: ``` var dropdown = this.editCtrl.find('select.society'); ``` and like this: ``` var dropdown = $('select.society', this.editCtrl); ``` The length of the result set is zero in both cases. What's the correct way to get a certain element from such an html snippet?