Best practice, valid HTML, and compatible with XHTML would be
$('#whatever').html('<div></div>');
$('#whatever').html('<br />');
$('#whatever').html('<img alt="" src="..." />');
- Richard
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Bertilo Wennergren <berti...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Richard D. Worth wrote:
>
> I won't speak to the jQuery documentation, nor jQuery's internal
>> implementation for $(html), only your questions about HTML and XHTML,
>> based
>> on my own knowledge and best practices: [...]
>>
>
> Thanks!
>
> So if I understand your points, the following examples can be called "best
> practices" when using jQuery along with HTML 4.01:
>
> $('#whatever').html('<div></div>');
> $('#whatever').html('<br>');
> $('#whatever').html('<img alt="" src="...">');
>
> Actually I code everthing in XHTML, but I still wondered
> how this is supposed to be done in jQuery in old style HTML.
>
> I think I read somewhere that jQuery just passes the
> code along to the "innerHTML" function of the browser.
> That would mean that the actual rules are those of the
> browsers' various implementations of "innerHTML" (whatever
> those may be...).
>
>
> --
> Bertilo Wennergren <http://bertilow.com>
>
