I have a dialog window that uses a URL for its contents { function(){jQuery.ajax({'success':function(html) { jQuery('#menu_dialog').html(html); $('#menu_dialog').dialog('open'); $('#header').hide(); },'url':'/testing/index.php/menu','cache':false});return false;}; } What happens is that it was displaying the whole page, including the header, the footer,navigation menu,etc. What I want is for the dialog to only display the content inside the <content> tag. How can I remove the unnecessary divs in the dialog window?