On Aug 2, 7:46 pm, DaveG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'd really like is a way to insert dom elements without automatic > closure taking place. I checked out jQ and didn't see a flag in the code; > although to be honest I'm not sure I fully understood what's going on in > there ;)
The automatic closure is happening due to HOW the functions like after() and before() are implemented. When you pass HTML to them, they use the browser-supplied DOM functions to create a miniature DOM tree. Your BROWSER is what creates the tree and gives jQuery back a well- formed DOM tree, which jQuery can than append/prepend/whatever to your existing DOM tree. This is, in fact, the only sane way to implement the behaviour, as implementing a full-fledged HTML parser into jQ would increase its size by several times.
