I'd guess it was something else, as this code works just fine, no errors http://paste.pocoo.org/show/86303/
If appending "" or null was an issue, 'Bob' would never get shown On Sep 26, 3:15 pm, kape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this is correct behavior or a bug, but if I append an > empty string it causes an error. So $('#someId').append('') causes an > error. In my case, I'm actually supplying a variable to append() but > this variable could be an empty string. I don't see why appending > nothing would cause an error, which is why I think it's a bug. > > Anyway, for now, I'm just going to check if the variable is empty > before calling append().