use jquery to get index of element in parsed html result set
<p>it appears that</p>

<pre><code>$(html).find('*').index('#theID');
</code></pre>

<p>yields -1 whereas</p>

<pre><code>$(html).find('*').each(function(ind){if(this.id=='theID') alert('found! @'+ind) } );
</code></pre>

<p>does work (alerting 229)</p>

<p>I am using <strong>Windows 7</strong> with <strong>IE 8</strong> and <strong>jquery 1.6.1</strong></p>

<p>My question is, why doesn't the first one work?  Thanks.</p>
