[jQuery] traversing ajax response with .find in Safari/Chrome

[jQuery] traversing ajax response with .find in Safari/Chrome


I'm trying to get a div from an html ajax response.
my code is pretty simple
[code]
    success: function(response){
                    var newItem=$(response).find("div#item").html();
                    alert(newItem);
}
[/code]
This works fine in FF and IE, but Chrome and Safari both return null.
I'm trying to find another way to write that, but It all seems pretty
straight forward to me.
Is there another way to get this other than .find?