$('') vs $('') in jQuery

Question

I see people creating HTML elements in jQuery in two different ways:

$(\'\')

and

$(\'\') 
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Answer 1

No, it makes no difference at all, as long as the element definition is well-formed. The second style is simply an alternate syntax which can actually save keystrokes:

$('');    // XML-like syntax
$(''); // Well-formed HTML
$('');     // Malformed (no closing tag)