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

Question

If I have a span tag like this:

 Hi
SecondLine

And I call this jQuery function:

 var ht         


        

Answer 1

You aren't actually using XML, so it makes sense that the serialization doesn't use the XML syntax. See also Ian Hickson's essay about sending XHTML as HTML.