Question

After searching, I’m trying this code which I’m pretty sure was suppose to work:

$("#someLinkID").click(
    function () {
        var divToRender = "<div>" + "some message" + "</div>";
        $(divToRender).css({ top: 0, left: 0, position: 'absolute' });
        $(this).append(divToRender);
    }
);

What am I missing, that looks very logical…

Answer 1

I finally saw the mistake (that the CSS wasn’t being applied), to ensure that it is applied (though I can’t say why it, originally, wasn’t) I’d recommend:

$("#someLinkID").click(
    function () {
        $('<div />', {'text' : 'some message'})
        .css({top: 0, left: 0, position : 'absolute'})
        .appendTo($(this));
    }
);

JS Fiddle demo.