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Taoyipai, thanks for responding. I am aware about html(). My question is how come the text(string) output, despite obviously being escaped, is not showing in View Source or through the browser debugger.
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Taoyipai, thanks for responding. I am aware about html(). My question is how come the text(string) output, despite obviously being escaped, is not showing in View Source or through the browser debugger.

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It won't show in view source because that is the rendered HTML at load, anything you add is in the browsers DOM<br />
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Jquery will html encode the &lt;&nbsp;and &gt;&nbsp;etc to their equivalent (&amp;gt; or &amp;lt;) but when you view it the debugger you will see the actual &lt;&nbsp;&gt;
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It won't show in view source because that is the rendered HTML at load, anything you add is in the browsers DOM

Jquery will html encode the < and > etc to their equivalent (&gt; or &lt;) but when you view it the debugger you will see the actual < >

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I don't understand something.<br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-28587186-1">$(&quot;#myDiv&quot;).text(&quot;&lt;b&gt;Boo&lt;/b&gt;&quot;);

&lt;div id=&quot;myDiv&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</code></pre>
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The browser will actually display '&lt;b&gt;Boo&lt;/b&gt;' without boldfacing the word 'Boo'. When I examine the source through the browser's debugger (e.g. webkit), the text doesn't show the output as using HTML entities like &amp;gt; or &amp;lt;, nor are any of the characters escaped in any way.<br />
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Can someone please explain to me what's happening here?
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I don't understand something.

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The browser will actually display '<b>Boo</b>' without boldfacing the word 'Boo'. When I examine the source through the browser's debugger (e.g. webkit), the text doesn't show the output as using HTML entities like &gt; or &lt;, nor are any of the characters escaped in any way.

Can someone please explain to me what's happening here?

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