Jquery show HTML Tags not a results of this tag?

Question

Why after this script:

$("<span />", { text: this.value+' <br /><br />', "class":"view" }).insertAfter(this);

I see text <br /><br />. I want to see results not a HTML tags.
Plz any help

Answer 1

Replace your value to this:

html: this.value + ' <br /><br />', "class": "view"

Why?

Because you are updating the text which is the visible value of the element.

Using html you will write the value next to it, as the HTML content. And the <br /> will be used as a line break.

Answer 2

Use html

$("<span />", { html: this.value+' <br /><br />', "class":"view" }).insertAfter(this);
              //^

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