Interpolation in JavaScript

Question

I have this jQuery code

$("#selector").html('<a href=url>text</a>');

where url and text are JavaScript variables. How would I evaluate them inside quotes?

Answer 1

You just concatenate the strings together with +:

$('#selector').html('<a href='+url+'>'+text+'</a>');

Answer 2

While @kingjiv's answer is absolutely right, if you'll be doing a lot of templating with jQuery it might be worth checking out the tmpl* plugin to help keep things organized.

*note: This plugin never made it past beta, and is no longer being maintained, the link above is for archival purposes only.