try regular expressions http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_obj_regexp.asp or http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html
maybe it helps ;) On 2 Aug., 21:13, cohq82 <quang...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have my website getting a value as a result of an ajax call. After > that, I would like to insert that result (a string) into a tag. > However, I would like to insert that result in a way that (1) it must > have opacity = 0, then (2) it will slideDown() so the whole content > list being pushed down using animation, and finally (3) change opacity > = 1. Imagine this is just like a Facebook message list insert process > > The way I am planning to do this is to return the result string from > ajax to opacity=0 first. However, I don't know how to use jQuery to > select a tag from within a string. I know jQuery only select from the > DOM. So how to do this? Any advice? > > Thanks