[jQuery] How to manipulate an object containaing HTML

[Julien]

Hello,

i'm trying to find out how to edit (manipulate DOM) of an HTML ajax
result.

What i have is the following :

$('a').live('click',function(e){
    var link = this;
    $.ajax({
      url: "testAjax.html",
      cache: false,
      data: 'href='+this.href,
      success: function(html){

         html.appendTo("#myTable");

      }
    });
    e.preventDefault();
  })

Which returns rows of a table :

<tr>
  <td></td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td></td>
  <td></td>
</tr>

What i would like to do is before appending to the table something
like that :

$(html).$("td").css('padding-left','80px');

I can't find how to do that. I tried using the find function but it
only return the td in the example.

It's probably very simple but i can't find it anywhere...

Any help much appreciated!