Question

Any good reason why $(‘p’).html(0) makes all paragraphs empty as opposed to contain the character ‘0’?

Instead of assuming I found a bug in jQuery, it’s probably a misunderstanding on my part.

Answer 1

jQuery only accepts a string as an argument for the val parameter of the html() method. If you pass a number like you are it will call the html() method override that sets the contents of the element but the value of the argument will end up being null or an empty string.

Try this:

$('p').html((0).toString()) 

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