$.html(text) parses the text and extracts the child javascripts elements from text and put them at the root level. It doesn't respects de parent/child relationship between the HTML tag elements and the child javascripts. When we iterate with $.each() the resulting elements parsed by $.html() the javascripts elements are in the root level and not in it child level.

Example: I have a parent div with two childs. The first one is a javascript element and the second one is another div with another javascript child.

Here you are the example code:

Example:

var html = $("<div><div id='container1'>" +

"<script type='text/javascript'>" +

"alert('hello world');" +

"</script>" +

"<span>hello world </span>" + "<div id='container1.1'>" +

"<script type='text/javascript'>" +

"alert('hello world 2');" +

"</script>" +

"</div>" +

"</div>" +

"<div id='container2'>" +

"<span>hello world 3</span>" +

"</div></div>");

html.each(function(i){

console.log($(this).html());

});

When we iterate the resulting jQuery object we obtain the following 3 elements:

<div id="container1"><span>hello world </span><div id="container1.1"></div></div><div id="container2"><span>hello world 3</span></div>

alert('hello world');

alert('hello world 2');

The expected result would be like jQuery 1.3.2 only 1 element and with html(), the javascript tags and its content is printed in their corresponding level.

Thanks.

Ramón