I wanted to assign a link tag to innerHTML of a HTML control. But this is not working properly in Internet Explorer. However when I try to assign anything other than &
to the set text properly, i would recommend you to go what i generally do. if you have ie 8 then open the html in ie. press f12 to show the developer tool. now in the new window go to script tag. set break point from where your javascript starts. now press on the button start debugging. execute the js function from your by some event or the way it executes. now on the object in the javascripg function, when the break point hits, right click and add watch. expand the object and see, where your earlier text was and where is your new text.