Selecting elements from HTML string

Selecting elements from HTML string

how can i select elements from a HTML string. i have used .get() to load data and i want to search for HTML elements within that data/string

  1. $.get(nextHref, function(data) {
  2.     alert(data); // OK
  3.     // i tried
  4.     alert($(data).find("#posts").html()); // returns null
  5.     // and
  6.     alert($("#posts", data).html()); // returns null also
  7. }