How to create an empty, non-null jQuery object ready for appending?

Question

I want to append some html to an empty non null jQuery object only in the loop but it\'s not working unless I create an object and add an html tag during creation. How can I cre

Answer 1

I couldn't find another way so I started with the . Removing the while keeping the contents didn't work properly and that's why I posted the question. So, instead, I created a new jQuery selection by selecting all the 's which were inside the and threw away $new.

var $new = $().add("");  

$.each(.....)
  {
    $new.append("");

});
$new.append("");
$newObject = $('sometagt', $new)
..... do more work using $newObject