JQuery cannot append HTML, either through .append() or .HTML()

Question

I cannot seem to append HTML into a div tag. For instance, if I do this:

$(".someDiv").dblclick(function(){
         alert("here");
         $(this).html("<b>hello!</b>");

    });

OR

$(".someDiv").dblclick(function(){
         alert("here");
         $(this).append("<b>hello!</b>");

    });

However, if I exclude any HTML tags, the function works just fine. I have searched around online and no one seems to be having this problem... I am using Chrome. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Alnitak · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-24 08:28:47Z

1

You've just put your closing quote mark in the wrong place.

$(this).append("<b>hello!</b>");

answered Aug 24, 2012 at 8:28

Alnitak

341k72 gold badges420 silver badges503 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

5 Comments

Serguei Fedorov Over a year ago

Lol, weird it got shifted while I modified a few things. However, it is correct on my working copy

Alnitak Over a year ago

@user1260028 very strange then, there's nothing else wrong in the snippet you posted.

Serguei Fedorov Over a year ago

Could it be chrome trying to prevent HTML injection?

Serguei Fedorov Over a year ago

It also does not seem to work in Internet Explorer... My code is one to one with the above other than some name changes. The alert fires properly just to make sure its running through that code. Chrome reports no javascript errors.

Alnitak Over a year ago

@user1260028 no, this is completely standard jQuery. What sort of element is this ?

Serguei Fedorov · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-24 08:47:03Z

0

Didn't realize I put it into an XHTML file. The above code will not work in an XHTML file.

answered Aug 24, 2012 at 8:47

Serguei Fedorov

8,01310 gold badges69 silver badges98 bronze badges

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

JQuery cannot append HTML, either through .append() or .HTML()

2 Answers 2

5 Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

5 Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related