Fear of the DOM: why web developers use jQuery
Many web developers use the jQuery library simply because they don't know the DOM.
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jQuery 1.9: AJAX methods and well-formed HTML
HTML strings must be well-formed when passed to the jQuery's selector engine. This also affects AJAX methods.
jQuery: prevent the text() method from affecting children elements
The jQuery's text() method also affects the text of children elements. Here's a solution to this problem.