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

To dynamically load a CSS file using JQuery.

var link = $("");
link.attr({
    type: 'text/css',
    rel: 'stylesheet',
    href: 
});
$("head").append( link );