I want to insert a large chunk of html into a pre-existing
Stefan is right, but to answer your question with quotes, don't forget to escape anything that would otherwise break it, so if you have . I am using this method:
$(\"td#content\").html(LOTS_OF_HTML_CODE_HERE);
html("...etc..."); it needs to be html("...etc..."); in order for the double quotes to not be read literally.