How do you detect if an html element can append child nodes?

Question

I created a custom jquery event called \'loading\' in my application. I want to append a masking element with a spinner, when this event is triggered. I can figure out tha

Answer 1

The accepted answer has a very nice fuction based on which types of nodes can be void. It can be replaced by a jQuery one-liner:

node.is("area,base,br,col,command,embed,hr,img,input,keygen,link,meta,param,source,track,wbr")