Set content of HTML with Javascript

Question

In a webpage I am calling a WebService that gives me an integer value. I need to display this value in a block of text. I am currently using an HTML

Answer 1

The Maximally Standards Compliant way to do it is to create a text node containing the text you want and append it to the span (removing any currently extant text nodes).

The way I would actually do it is to use jQuery's .text().