Question

I tried several methods, none seem to work:

1 (I tried this one with other elements and it doesn’t work either):

$('#container').append('<object attribute="value"></object>');

2 (I found that this way worked with IE with most elements, but no luck here) :

var newSwf = $('<object></object>').attr('attribute', 'value');
$('#container').append(newSwf); //appendTo doesn't work either

None of the above seems to have any effect on the DOM, like nothing is appending at all. I know IE works funny with the append function, but until now, I always managed to find a workaround. I have no clue with this one though. Any ideas?

EDIT:

It seems it was my mistake, something else on my code was causing the problem in IE. I’m terribly sorry, I was hiting against a wall and I thought it was some sort of .append() issue, since IE always works funny with that.

The second method worked, as it does with other elements.

Answer 1

As mentioned in my comment, it works on IE 8+. But in case they are not, stick to native JavaScript for this

var newobject = document.createElement('object')
newobject.setAttribute('id','objectid');
document.getElementById("container").appendChild(newobject);

Demo