How to create a DOM node as an object?

Question

I would like to create a DOM node, set the \'id\' attribute and then append it to \'body\'. The following seems not to work because jQuery doesn\'t see my template as an obj

Answer 1

And here is the one liner:

$("
bla
").find("li").attr("id","1234").end().appendTo("body")

But I'm wondering why you would like to add the "id" attribute at a later stage rather than injecting it directly in the template.