jQuery: Get next page via ajax and append it with animation - ajax

Question

I am getting next page on my wordpress blog using jquery, finding the desired div and appending it to the existing one. This part works without a problem. But, what I need to do is, to add slideDown animation to it.
This is how my working code so far looks like:
$.get(next_page, function(data) {
var response = $(data);
var more_div = $(response).find('.FeaturedRow1').html();
$('.FeaturedRow1').append(more_div).slideDown('slow');
$('.navigation').not(':last').hide();
I tried adding hide() to response, more_div as well as append lines. In the first case, I get error stating that it cannot set property display of undefined.
In the second case, in the console it display HTML and says "has no method hide". I also tried adding a line $(more_div).hide() but again, I get the error "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'display' of undefined".
If I use hide in the 3rd line
$('.FeaturedRow1').hide().append(more_div).slideDown('slow');
it hides the whole FeaturedRow1 div and animates it, that takes me to the top of the div, which is what I don't want.
EDIT: Here's the important HTML structure and jQuery code for the desired section
<div class="FeaturedRow1">
<div class="postspage">
//list of posts here
</div>
<div class="navigation">
<span class="loadless">
//hyperlink to previous page
</span>
<span class="loadmore">
//hyperlink to next page
</span>
</div>
</div>
When you click on the hyperlink inside the loadmore, the following jQuery code gets called
$('.loadmore a').live('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var next_page = $(this).attr('href');
$.get(next_page, function(data) {
var $response = $(data);
var $more_div = $response.find('.FeaturedRow1').hide();
$more_div.appendTo('.FeaturedRow1').delay(100).slideDown('slow')
$('.navigation').not(':last').hide();
});
});
$('.loadless').live('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
if ($('.postpage').length != 1) {
$('.postpage').last().remove();
}
$('.navigation').last().remove();
$('.navigation').last().show();
});

Answer 1

You get error as you are using html method which returns a string not a jQuery object, try the following.
var $response = $(data);
var $more_div = $response.find('.FeaturedRow1').hide();
$more_div.appendTo('.FeaturedRow1').delay(100).slideDown('slow');
//$('.navigation').not(':last').hide();
Update:
$.get(next_page, function(data) {
var $response = $(data);
var more_div = $response.find('.FeaturedRow1').html();
$('<div/>').hide()
.append(more_div)
.appendTo('.FeaturedRow1')
.delay(100)
.slideDown('slow')
$('.navigation').not(':last').hide();
});