Does jQuery strip some html elements from a string when using .html()?

Question

I have a var that contains a full html page, including the head, html, body, etc. When I pass that string into the .html() function, jQuery strips out all those elements, s

Answer 1

Nope, the jQuery html function is just sending the string through to the element's innerHTML property, which is a function of the browser that tells it to parse the HTML into DOM elements and add them to the page.

Your browser doesn't work with a page as HTML data, it works with it as DOM and imports/exports HTML.

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