Still looking to see if this is possible. My solution (not very elegant) was to replace paragraph tags with <br /> tags, then split on the <br /> tag like so:
<html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <br /><br /> this is the first paragraph... <br /><br /> this is the second paragraph... <br /><br /> </body> </html> That works just fine, but I'd really love to be able to generate a jQuery object from text. It would be much simpler than my solution I'm sure. You can see what I came up with here: http://www.commadelimited.com/code/fillertext/