I understand so far that in Jquery, with html() function, we can convert HTML into text, for example,

$(#myDiv).html(result);

converts result (which is the html code) into normal text and display it in myDiv.

Now, my question is, is there a way I can simply convert the html and put it into a variable?

for example:

var temp;

temp = html(result);

something like this, of course this does not work, but how can I put the converted into a variable without write it to the screen? Since I'm checking the converted in a loop, thought it's quite and waste of resource if keep writing it to the screen for every single loop.

Edit:

Sorry for the confusion, for example, if result is <p>abc</p> then $(#mydiv).html(result) makes mydiv display abc, which converts html into normal text by removing the <p> tags. So how can I put abc into a variable without doing something like var temp=$(#mydiv).text()?