create span tag and insert with Jquery

Question

I am trying to populate a span tag that i was to insert into my page with jquery. i tried this ``` var span = $('').attr({'className':'folder_name' , 'text':'favre' }); var insert= $('

', { className: "folder", html: span }); ``` which yielded this result. ```

``` then i tried this ``` var span = $('').attr({'className':'folder_name', 'html':'Elway' }); ``` which yielded this ```

``` what i am trying to get is below ```

**Elway**

```

Accepted Answer

The HTML of an object is not an attribute and needs to be supplied separately: ``` var span = $('').attr('className', 'folder_name').html('Elway'); ``` Also, `className` is not a valid attribute, do you mean `class` instead, if so use this: ``` var span = $('').addClass('folder_name').html('Elway'); ```

create span tag and insert with Jquery

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