Question

I’m appending to below div with id “toadd” using this javascript :

 $("#toadd").append("<li><a href=\"acura.html\"></a></li>");

<div id="toadd" data-role="content">
        <p>Page 1 content</p>
                <ul data-role="listview" data-theme="g">
</ul>

Is it possible to append to ‘ul’ element within the div? something like

 $("#toadd.ul").append("<li><a href=\"acura.html\"></a></li>");

Answer 1

Try it without . between #toadd and ul:

$("#toadd ul").append("<li><a href=\"acura.html\"></a></li>");

Edit: $("#toadd.ul") means you are looking the element that has id=”toadd” and has a class named “ul”.
$("#toadd ul") selects all ul that are enclosed within #toadd element.