IE fails creating HTML elements with no trailing slash

[rodnaph]

I've noticed that when creating HTML elements with jQuery I usually use this syntax...

$( '<span>' );

This works in Firefox, but fails in IE. Example...

$( '<span>' )

.html( 'Some Text' ) .appendTo( $('body') );

I've noticed with when creating other types of elements as well as span's. You can also work around this by using $('<span/>')

Please find suggested fix attached.

[dmethvin]

This is fixed in 1.3.x thanks to the special-case handling of unadorned tags through document.createElement.