Question

When I’m adding a div to body, it’s returning the body as the object and then whenever I use that – it’s obviously using body. Bad.

Code:-

var holdyDiv = $('body').append('div');
$(holdyDiv).attr('id', 'holdy');

The ‘id’ of holdy is now being added to body… eh? What am I doing wrong.

Answer 1

jQuery methods returns the set they were applied on.

Use .appendTo:

var $div = $('<div />').appendTo('body');
$div.attr('id', 'holdy');