Question

I’m trying to append a line break to a line of text I’m loading from an xml page using the following code:

$("#questionNumber").text(questionInARow).append('<br>');

The text is loading okay, but the append is being ignored.
I’ve also tried this:

$("#questionNumber").text(questionInARow).html("<br>");

and this is ignored likewise.
Is my syntax wrong, or my method just bad?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Markup

<div id='temp'></div>

JS

$('#temp').text("hello").html($("#temp").html() + "<br/> how do you do? "); //This is one way
$('#temp').html("hello").append("<br/> how do you do?"); //Yet another way using the 'append' method.

Fiddle