Question

How do I put a variable name inside an li tag?

For exmaple,

var test_name = $('dt').text();

$('#test_div').html('<li> test_name </li>');

This is not working. What am I doing wrong here. It displays test_name not the value of test_name.

Answer 1

You need to build a string containing your value:

$('#test_div').html('<li>' + test_name + '</li>');

Note that this is an XSS hole; you need to escape the HTML.
You can do that by building an element with jQuery:

$('#test_div').html(
    $('<li></li>').text(test_name)
);