Adding html and plain text inside div with jQuery

Question

I'm recieving a string (it may be either plain text or HTML text) from server, and I need to insert it into a div after that.

I can use $div.text(textFromServer) if I know that textFromServer is plain text.

If I know that textFromServer is html I can do something like $(textFromServer).appendTo($div).

The problem is that I don't know for sure whether textFromServer is plain or HTML.

So here's the question: is there a elegant and simple solution for my problem? Or do I have to analyse textFromServer?

Answer 1

Simply use html():

$div.html(textFromServer);