How to create an empty, non-null jQuery object ready for appending?

Question

I want to append some html to an empty non null jQuery object only in the loop but it\'s not working unless I create an object and add an html tag during creation. How can I cre

Answer 1

if you don't want to end up with an ugly tag:

if(!$new){
$new.append("");
} else {
var $new = $("");