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How to get the contents inside a HTML tag (say, div) from a string of HTML source using javascript?

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@FangOct 05.2010 — [CODE]var source = '<h2>Lorem Ipsum Dolor</h2><div>foo</div>';
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = source;
alert(div.getElementsByTagName('div')[0].firstChild.data);
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