Ya I finally figured that part out. Not liking it but I found a smooth way of doing what I want.
Thanks for all the replies... On Jul 11, 6:17 am, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
