What's wrong with the solution suggested by Kean above? It's prettier
than this and works fine.
$('#foo').html('<br/><img /><br/>').find('img').attr
("src","asdf.gif");
- ricardo
On Dec 17, 6:03 pm, ken <jqu...@kenman.net> wrote:
> That's basically the form I've developed thus far:
>
> var img = jQuery( '<img/>' ).attr( 'src', 'image.gif' );
> jQuery( '#foo' ).html( img ).prepend( '<br/>' ).append( '<br/>'
> );
>
> It just seems very inelegant contrasted with the 'normal' jQuery usage.
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Hector Virgen <djvir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Or you could do this:
>
> > var img = << your image element wrapped in <br />s >>
> > $('#foo').html(img);
>
> > -Hector
>
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:36 AM, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:13 AM, ken <jqu...@kenman.net> wrote:
> >> > I need to replace the contents of #foo.
>
> >> > I would love to use CSS, and if I were starting anew that would be the
> >> case,
> >> > but unfortunately I am working on an existing application converting the
> >> > plain-jane JS to jQuery. I'm simply trying to replace existing
> >> functionality
> >> > WITHOUT affecting the HTML because the HTML is very fragile (the
> >> existing JS
> >> > utilizes DOM walking exclusively, so removing/replacing nodes causes a
> >> > cascade of fail).
>
> >> ok, then, how about just using a string instead of setting the attributes
> >> later?
>
> >> $('#foo').html('<br /><img src="image.gif" /><br />');
