JQuery: Build HTML in 'memory' rather than DOM

Question

Is there a way to \'pre-build\' a snippet of HTML before adding it to the DOM?

For example:

$mysnippet.append(\"
hello
\");
$mysni         


        

Answer 1

var sample =
    $('
')
        .append(
            $('
')
                .addClass('testing-attributes')
                .text('testing'))
        .html();

Which creates:

testing