This is probably what you need:
$('div').html();
This says get the div
and return all the contents inside it. See more here: http://api.jquery.com/html/
If you had many div
s on the page and needed to target just one, you could set an id
on the div
and call it like so
$('#whatever').html();
where whatever is the id
EDIT
Now that you have clarified your question re this being a string, here is a way to do it with vanilla js:
var l = x.length;
var y = x.indexOf('<div>');
var s = x.slice(y,l);
alert(s);
- get the length of the string.
- find out where the first
div
occurs - slice the content there.