appendTo for jquery not inserting html

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I have a function in javascript which returns an HTML some thing like this:

<div class='accordionNew'><div class='topBox'><div class='leftCurve'> <div class='rightCurve'><div class='midBg'><div class='boxTitle' id='widgetTitle'>Orders</div> <div class='clear'></div></div></div></div></div><div class='clear'></div><div id='divAttContent' class='contentBox border1 requiredFontSize requiredFontColor'></div><div class='pagination fivePxPaddingTop lfloat'> <div class='paginationDisplayNum'> <div class='lfloat threePxMarginTop fivePxMarginRight'>Showing<strong>1 - 5</strong>of <strong>25</strong></div><a href='#' class='first-in tabs' title='First'></a><a href='#' class='prev-in tabs' title='Previous'></a><a href='#' class='next tabs' title='Next'></a><a href='#' class='last tabs'title='Last'></a></div> <div class='lfloat fifteenPxMarginRight onePxMarginTop'><select><option selected='selected'>5</option><option>10</option><option>15</option><option>20</option><option>25</option></select><div class='topPadd lfloat fontGrayL fivePxMarginTop'>&nbsp;Per page</div></div><div class='clear'></div></div><div class='clear'></div></div></div>

This is the function which returns the above Html :

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function getWidgetHtml(result) {
var htmlObject = '';
    var htmlObject = "<div class='accordionNew'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='topBox'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='leftCurve'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " <div class='rightCurve'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='midBg'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='boxTitle' id='widgetTitle'>Orders";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " <div class='clear'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='clear'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div id='divAttContent' class='contentBox border1 requiredFontSize requiredFontColor'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='pagination fivePxPaddingTop lfloat'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " <div class='paginationDisplayNum'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " <div class='lfloat threePxMarginTop fivePxMarginRight'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "Showing<strong>1 - 5</strong>of <strong>25</strong></div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<a href='#' class='first-in tabs' title='First'></a><a href='#' class='prev-in tabs'";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " title='Previous'></a><a href='#' class='next tabs' title='Next'></a><a href='#' class='last tabs'";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "title='Last'></a>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " <div class='lfloat fifteenPxMarginRight onePxMarginTop'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<select>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<option selected='selected'>5</option>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<option>10</option>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<option>15</option>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<option>20</option>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<option>25</option>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</select>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='topPadd lfloat fontGrayL fivePxMarginTop'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "&nbsp;Per page</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='clear'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='clear'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    return htmlObject;
}

And i append it this way,

var htmlObject = getWidgetHtml();
$(htmlObject).appendTo($('#widgetDiv1'));
//where widgetDiv1 is the id of the div on my aspx page. If i place the same returned HTML directly on the aspx page it shows properly but the appendTo does not show anything. I also tested by appending a simple string and it is able to do that. What may be the problem?

Posted 21-Jun-11 21:11pm

adnan_1985

Updated 21-Jun-11 21:16pm

Prerak Patel

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 22-Jun-11 8:12am

Got it fixed now! I had to delete my first solution as it was not correct! This one does work though :).
Cheers!

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Answer 1 · 2011-06-22T02:11:00

Small error but...

C#

function getWidgetHtml(result) {
    var htmlObject = '';
    var htmlObject = "<div class='accordionNew'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='topBox'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='leftCurve'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " <div class='rightCurve'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='midBg'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='boxTitle' id='widgetTitle'>Orders";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " <div class='clear'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='clear'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div id='divAttContent' class='contentBox border1 requiredFontSize requiredFontColor'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='pagination fivePxPaddingTop lfloat'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " <div class='paginationDisplayNum'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " <div class='lfloat threePxMarginTop fivePxMarginRight'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "Showing<strong>1 - 5</strong>of <strong>25</strong></div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<a href='#' class='first-in tabs' title='First'></a><a href='#' class='prev-in tabs'";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " title='Previous'></a><a href='#' class='next tabs' title='Next'></a><a href='#' class='last tabs'";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "title='Last'></a>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " <div class='lfloat fifteenPxMarginRight onePxMarginTop'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<select>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<option selected='selected'>5</option>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<option>10</option>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<option>15</option>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<option>20</option>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<option>25</option>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</select>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='topPadd lfloat fontGrayL fivePxMarginTop'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + " Per page</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='clear'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "<div class='clear'>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>";
    //The following closing tag was one to many
    //htmlObject = htmlObject + "</div>"; 
    return htmlObject;
}

I used your function in my own test harness and it worked in FF but not in IE. In IE I got it to work after I found out that the last closing div did not have a corresponding opening div. This gets IE confused as the jQuery implementation uses innerHTML on IE to do the HTML parsing when string in $(string) is HTML.
:)
Best Regards,
--MRB