Applying styles from CSS to newly appended elements

Question

I add an element to a parent div dynamically.

$(\'.some_div\').append(\"
hey!
\")

In my CSS,

Answer 1

Your string concatenation could be the problem, since your string literal is enclosed within "" any occurrence of " within the string has to be escaped

$('.some_div').append('
hey!
')

Demo: Fiddle

Note: also note that li is a valid child for ul or ol elements, so the some_div must be either one of them