Thanks to Felix Geisendörfer, he answered in his blog: It's an element not attached to the document tree. Until you attach it to an existing element it pretty much is isolated from anything else.
On Oct 13, 9:43 am, Viktar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $('<div/>') returns array of one object. Is this some kind of virtual > element? $('<anything/>') also returns one element. > > I am using this element to make html encode (Example $('<div/ > > >').text('<br/>').html()). > > Is this jquery bug? I didn't find any documentation of this behavior. > I don't want to rely on bug in my code.