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In IE 8, jQuery acts as I would expect:
$('div',$('<a><div></div></a>')).html('test').html()
"test"
In FireFox:
$('div',$('<a><div></div></a>')).html('test').html()
"<a>test</a>"
It puts anchors around what I wanted. Does anyone know why this would happen?
EDIT: Setting this with plain javascript (i.e. setting innerHTML) causes the problem. So I guess my real question is: why does firefox change what I set? Is this part of some esoteric specification, or is it a bug?
Wrapping an
<a>around a<div>is invalid html. Maybe Firefox is fixing it for you on the fly and returning the valid html?