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

Question

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

$(\'\')

and

$(\'\') 
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Answer 1

A shorthand element requires a slash because its replacing . So you'd write that wherever appropriate for the sake of valid markup. But its not required to be one way or another.

Edited: this is not actually the problem. others here seem to agree that its a matter of regex performance