jQuery html attribute not working in IE

Question

I am using country and state dropdowns in my form. Whenever the user selects the country in the dropdown, the respective states of the country will populate in the states dr

Answer 1

After hours of frustration I realized that IE does not support jquery attribute functions for html5 elements other than div. I was trying to do this:

success: function (response, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest) {
    $response = $(response.replace(/\t/g, " "));
    $responseHTML = $response.find("#pageContainer").html();
    $container.html($responseHTML);

For this element:

By changing it to this it solved the problem: