Dynamically changing the HTML of a div with jQuery is causing HTML encoding to be lost

Question

I have a piece of code which dynamically alters the HTML of a div called \'accordion\' on the fly like so:

// htmlstring contains some HTML containing some HTML          


        

Answer 1

Thanks go to Barmar for providing the first correct answer. In actual fact I refactored my code so that I wasn't passing complicated strings via a method parameter, but my you did answer my initial query correctly.

Thanks to other comments for your input too.