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JavaScript jQuery Basics Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal Progressive Enhancement and Unobtrusive JavaScript

Posted by Dinesh Patil
Dinesh Patil
7,752 Points

How to create the empty list item and append it to HTML in jQuery ?

I'm doing this 

$('my-ul').append('<li> </li>');

1 Answer

Dinesh Patil
Dinesh Patil
7,752 Points

Ok after going over few times and trying different solutions i solved it. I was missing a simple double quotes.

$('.my-ul').append("<li> </li>");