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Comment by jedschmidt | Hacker News Reader

    new Option("<div>in the browser, yes.</div>").innerHTML

Oh I like this. I was messing with a similar tactic appending a textNode to an HTML element but this is much more elegant.

The text node approach is cross-browser, whereas I don't think this works on oldIE.

I just tried this and it doesn't seem to escape " to ".

yes! awesome snippit :)