What is the equivalent of document.createTextNode(' ') in jQuery

Question

What can I use in jquery instead of document.createTextNode(' ') js line.

I'm trying to do sth like this :

js : divButtons.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' '));

jquery : $("#divButtons").append(?????);

Answer 1

Please be careful with the existing answers. They show how to append HTML. HTML is not Text. Treating text as HTML is a) a bug and b) dangerous.

Here is a sane solution:

$('selector').append(document.createTextNode('text < and > not & html!')) 

This is using jQuery only for the append part. Nothing wrong with using createTextNode. jQuery uses createTextNode internally in its text(str) function.