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appendText

June 25, 2007 - 5:22am — JulienW

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This (very) small plugins is the incestuous child of "append" and "text": it appends a new Text Node.

This is especially important when you want to append user-supplied input, because a Text Node is never interpreted as HTML.

var $myLabel = $("<label/>")
    .append("<input type='checkbox'/>")
    .appendText("use HTML <a href=''>");

Will add to the DOM the equivalent of the following HTML:

<label><input type='checkbox'/>use HTML <a href=''></label>

Official releases	Date	Size	Links	Status
1.0.0	2007-Jun-25	482 bytes	Download Release notes	Recommended for 1.1.x