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

In my case the problem was with the way I was commenting out my javascript in the data being loaded.

// Works fine

/* Works fine */

I've never had any problems commenting out like that in IE before, only when using ajax to load it into an existing page. No problem with th eother browsers either.