Question

What’s wrong with my jquery script?

Here’s the script

function debug(message){
  $("body").append("<div id=\"debug\">"+ $(message) +"</div>"):
}
debug("show this debug message in the div");

Here’s the resulting html I get

<div id="debug">[object Object]</div>

The html that I expect is this

<div id="debug">show this debug message in the div</div>

Answer 1

You are pasting an object in, $(message), instead of the variable message. Try this:

    function debug(message){
      $("body").append("<div id=\"debug\">"+ message +"</div>"):
    }