jQuery document.createElement equivalent? I'm refactoring some old JavaScript code and there's a lot of DOM manipulation going on. var d = document; var odv = d.createElement("div"); odv.style.display = "none"; this.OuterDiv = odv; var t = d.createElement("table"); t.cellSpacing = 0; t.className = "text"; odv.appendChild(t); I would like to know if there is a better way to do this using jQuery. I've been experimenting with: var odv = $.create("div"); $.append(odv); // And many more But I'm not sure if this is any better. Answer: here's your example