Which is the correct or better way to create a new element with jQuery?

Question

Related to the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/10619477/1076753 to cleate an element is better to use

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Answer 1

If you go solely by metrics that can be easily measured: The first is better because it is 2 bytes shorter.

Once you start accounting for readability and other less tangible considerations, it becomes largely a matter of opinion.

So, at the end it's wrong to use one of the first two options for a div?

No, that section only applies "If the HTML is more complex than a single tag without attributes"