What is the best JavaScript code to create an img element

Question

I want to create a simple bit of JS code that creates an image element in the background and doesn\'t display anything. The image element will call a tracking URL (such as

Answer 1

jQuery:

$('#container').append('');

I've found that this works even better because you don't have to worry about HTML escaping anything (which should be done in the above code, if the values weren't hard coded). It's also easier to read (from a JS perspective):

$('#container').append($('', { 
    src : "/path/to/image.jpg", 
    width : 16, 
    height : 16, 
    alt : "Test Image", 
    title : "Test Image"
}));