Adding css rules with text method to style element does not work in IE

Question

It works fine in Firefox and Chrome, but does not work in IE8. Here is the html structure:

Answer 1

This is working for me in IE7:

$('').appendTo($('head'));

Another syntax which might be easier to read:

$('head').append('');

However, calling either .text(val) or .html(val) to set the contents of the style tag will cause an exception to be thrown because they set the innerHTML DOM property which is read-only.

Here is IE's documentation of the innerHTML property:

The property is read/write for all objects except the following, for which it is read-only: COL, COLGROUP, FRAMESET, HEAD, HTML, STYLE, TABLE, TBODY, TFOOT, THEAD, TITLE, TR.