On Jul 10, 1:38 pm, Terry B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wtf? I have specific html i want added to a div so I use append to > add it. fine it works but it is formatting the code and making it > unusable. how do i prevent append from doing this?
Aside from what others have already said here, i think you're misunderstanding how append() works: it internally creates a DOM tree from the HTML you pass it, then it uses that tree for future operations. It does that by using element.innerHTML, and then reads that tree (which the BROWSER creates), and then works with that tree. If it didn't do that, it would have to manually parse your HTML code, which is extremely difficult to do properly (since it cannot know what you pass it). Adding a "proper" HTML parser to jQuery would inflate its size by several times, and it would have to attempt to be "bug-compatible" with common browsers (e.g., whether or not to require certain closing tags and whether or not to require quotes around attribute values). In the jq code you can browse the function called 'clean' to see how it creates your inner tree.
