Question

I need to insert an unclosed tag into a selector:

$("div.crop-to-select").html("")
$("div.crop-to-select").append("<table>")

where I want to do the closing later, myself:

$("div.crop-to-select").append("</table>")

I am finding, though, that the append always adds

<table></table>

each time. My table is getting closed before I can put any data into it.
Is there a different jQuery function for this?

Answer 1

You can do something like this..

$("div.crop-to-select").append("<table>"); // This is fine..
$("div.crop-to-select table").html("-----ADD YOUR DATA HERE ------"); // But data which 
you want to put inside table can be added here..