title: jquery ajax parse response text
body: <p>Ok this is really frusturating me because I've done this a hundred times before, and this time it isn't working.  So I know I'm doing something wrong, I just can't figure it out.</p>
  
  <p>I am using the jQuery .get routine to load html from another file.  I don't want to use .load() because it always replaces the children of the element I'm loading content into.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my .get request:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(document).ready(function() {
      $.get('info.html', {}, function(html) {
          // debug code
          console.log($(html).find('ul').html());
          // end debug code
      });
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The file 'info.html' is a standard xhtml file with a proper doctype, and the only thing in the body is a series of ul's that I need to access.  For some reason, the find function is giving me a null value.</p>
  
  <p>In firebug, the GET request is showing the proper RESPONSE text and when I run</p>
  
  <pre><code>console.log(html);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Instead of the current console.log line, I get the whole info.html as output, like I would expect.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>