You're right, somehow I missed it. Thanks everyone!
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Ricardo Tomasi <ricardob...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> 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 />');
>
