How to find element in html string jquery‏

Use parseHTML from jquery 1.8 and above

https://api.jquery.com/category/version/1.8/

var str = '<div id="div1">div one</div><div id="div2">div two</div>';

var html = $.parseHTML(str);

alert($(html).filter('#div1').text());

 

http://api.jquery.com/filter/