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Trying to add some HTML to an element with innerHTML and weird stuff happens in Firefox (3.5, 3.6)?

var elm = document.getElementById('myElement');
elm.innerHTML = 'Test';
alert(elm.innerHTML);
// alerts '<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Test</div>'

I just figured out the problem is that one of myElement ancestors is attached to a table as a non-table element. In my case there was a div attached to a tr. Changing that div to td fixed the problem.

And they say web development isn’t full of surprises…

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