Converting String to HTML - string to “ a href” element

Question

Hello I am having some trouble getting some HTML links to add to my HTML page. I have tried searching around but nothing has helped thus far.

My page will initially

Answer 1

As Just code points out, you want to use the html method, not the text method. html() is jQuery's wrapper for innerHTML, which injects the string as html.

Here is a jsFiddle showing the difference:

http://jsfiddle.net/89nxt/

$("#teamRosterHtml").html("John Frank");
$("#teamRosterText").text("John Frank");