read html/text from another html page using jquery

Question

is it possible to read or extract html/text from a different .html page using jquery?

this what i would like to read and display in a different page

                    <div class="newsItemContent"> 
                      <h1 class="title"> 
                        heading 1
                      </h1>
                      content 1 content 1 content 1 content 1 
                    </div>

                   <div class="newsItemContent"> 
                      <h1 class="title"> 
                        heading 2
                      </h1>
                      content 2 content 2 content 2 content 2 
                    </div>

thanks

Answer 1

You can extract from another page using the load method thus $('#targetElement').load('page.htm #container') syntax.