Question

What is the standard DOM equivalent for JQuery

element.append("<ul><li><a href='url'></li></ul>")?

Answer 1

I think you have to extend the innerHTML property to do this

element[0].innerHTML += "<ul><li><a href='url'></a></li></ul>";

some explanation:

• [0] needed because element is a collection
• += extend the innerHTML and do not overwrite
• closing </a> needed as some browsers only allow valid html to be set to innerHTML

Hint:
As @dontdownvoteme mentioned this will of course only target the first node of the collection element. But as is the nature of jQuery the collection could contain more entries