I’ve run across something that is not making any sense to me.

The situation: I’ve got an empty imagemap that I want to dynamically enter area tags into with jQuery. I’ve been trying to insert them using .append() or even .html() and every time I attempt to do so nothing occurs. I can insert text or other tags, but no actual area tags.

Now, if I go oldschool and use document.getElementById(insertnamehere).innerHTML = “inserttagshere” that works. But every variation I can think of to use jQuery methods to add an area tag fails.

Can anyone think of anything obvious that I’m missing here?

Has anyone had the following problem? When loading a JSON array (through something like $.getJSON), Internet Explorer will sometimes report the length of the array being one higher than other browsers, with the extra element in the array being blank.

I don’t know if this is a problem in other libraries, but I suspect it is. But I do know that it’s happened to me when using jQuery’s Ajax functions.

Why is this occurring?

I was tormenting myself with this same question on a client project, and discovered that although a bit of browser quirkiness was involved, it was actually an error on my part.

I hate it when it’s me.

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