Question

Tried this :

<a href="#" id="showAlert">Click me</a>
<div id="pasteContent"></div>
​
var elemFunc = '<script>alert("myString");</script>';

$("#showAlert").click(function () {
    $("#pasteContent").html(elemFunc);
});
​

What I’d like to do is to append the string alert(myString); (which is a script) that must be executed… how can I do? Is it not correct?

Answer 1

Add a backslash before / in </script>: http://jsfiddle.net/kxALH/3/
Your code failed, because </script> is considered as a close tag for your fiddle script. As a result, your first fiddle looked somewhat weird.

Note: If you want to execute an arbitrary string of code, $.globalEval('alert("myString")'); may suit better.