Is it expected that jQuery $('span').html() turns XHTML br tag to html syntax?

Question

If I have a span tag like this:

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And I call this jQuery function:

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Answer 1

It doesn't. It just modifies the browser DOM.

It is up to the browser to serialise the DOM to HTML or XHTML as it desires when using innerHTML. Different browsers act differently.