DOM Exception when assigning HTML entities to innerHTML

Question

On this page http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/2010/11/11/sockets-and-nodes-i/, running the following code in javascript console will throw an Exception.

var div          


        

Answer 1

It appears as though it is expecting that you are trying to add encoded HTML but it's detecting it as malformed.
Does var div = document.createElement('div'); div.innerHTML = "»"; do what you need?

Per Comment: var dv = document.createElement('div'); dv.innerHTML = "»"; document.getElementById('test').appendChild(dv);

I got the encoded character here.

You're right about » being valid encoded HTML. I can only guess it's a limitation of the browser.