Appending HTML-encoded string as HTML, not as text

Question

I\'m trying to append this string:

<div> hello </div>

as an HTML node, but instead of appending HTML it just ap

Answer 1

Maybe this is a bit verbose, but this is usually how I handle stuff like that:

var div = $(document.createElement("div"));

div.text(" hello "); //Or div.html(" hello ") if need be...

$("#divtoappendto").append(div);