JavaScript with HTML Parsing!

Hello,

I am quite new to JavaScript, though I have programmed in Java and ANSI C for years so the syntax is quite familiar to me. The only thing I do not understand is the precise limitations of JavaScript. I understand some of the limitations as my search continues on this daunting task I am trying to figure out. I have spent endless hours on google trying to find the solution to my question.

Basically this is what I need done, I have an HTML form that is sent to a PHP file on a server. The server then sends back feedback (in HTML) and my web browser parses this HTML and views it. Is there a way for JavaScript to read ahead this data before the browser renders it and perhaps store it in a variable? If not, I can always have another window show the data and maybe have JavaScript read the html and store it in a variable. If either of these are possible, I would appreciate your input.

Thank you

With The Parser, it can take HTML string and turn it into a DOM tree.When I got a nickel for every time a server side developer came to me and asked for a little piece of javascript that generates some kind of DOM structure.

So here are some of the key features of Pure JavaScript HMTL Parser? Here it goes.
HTMLtoDOM("<p>Hello <b>World" ,document.getElementById("test")) - this snippet parses input string, makes it valid XML, converts it to DOM and appends it to a specified page element. Sweet!

HTMLtoXML("<img src=test.jpg>") - this one fixes the attribute declaration and adds missing closing ”/” at the end of a tag and produces <img src="test.jpg"/>. One of my personal pet peeves. Have been fighting with that for ages.

HTMLtoXML("<p>Hello<p>World") - this one is pretty cool as well, it automatically adds missing tag closings and produces: <p>Hello</p><p>World</p>

By using AJAX it is possible to make javascript to communicate with serverside script.JavaScript property is probably the simplest method for parsing the response of an AJAX-based HTTP request returned from the web server as plain text.

Thanks for your prompt reply where could I start with the snippet of AJAX snippet,please provide me the information regarding the same.

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Do you have a legitimate reason for wanting to do this?

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Why should it matter? Some people post weird link syntax so that it won't automatically get linked by the site thus having said site as a referer.

In any case, I'm trying to make a Greasemonkey script that'll parse the text on any HTML page and make the appropriate changes.