jQuery - Appending a div to body, the body is the object?

Question

When I\'m adding a div to body, it\'s returning the body as the object and then whenever I use that - it\'s obviously using body. Bad.

Code:-

var hol         


        

Answer 1

Instead use use appendTo. append or appendTo returns a jQuery object so you don't have to wrap it inside $().

var holdyDiv = $('
').appendTo('body');
holdyDiv.attr('id', 'holdy');

.appendTo() reference: http://api.jquery.com/appendTo/

Alernatively you can try this also.

$('
', { id: 'holdy' }).appendTo('body');
               ^
             (Here you can specify any attribute/value pair you want)