I think there is something wrong with my understanding of JQuery (which is pretty elemental at best).

I have a fragment of html. Jquery sees it as this:

$(content): jQuery.fn.jQuery.init[3]
0: h2
1: text
2: input#trapName
length: 3
__proto__: Object[0]

so I thought I could access the input element with

$(content).find('#trapName')

but it finds nothing.

Any clues. Note this fragment is not in the DOM - but should that matter?