jQuery's HTML Function

jquery.html.js

	html: function( value ) {
		if ( value === undefined ) {
			return this[0] && this[0].nodeType === 1 ?
				this[0].innerHTML.replace(rinlinejQuery, "") :
				null;

		// See if we can take a shortcut and just use innerHTML
		} else if ( typeof value === "string" && !rnocache.test( value ) &&
			(jQuery.support.leadingWhitespace || !rleadingWhitespace.test( value )) &&
			!wrapMap[ (rtagName.exec( value ) || ["", ""])[1].toLowerCase() ] ) {

			value = value.replace(rxhtmlTag, "<$1></$2>");

			try {
				for ( var i = 0, l = this.length; i < l; i++ ) {
					// Remove element nodes and prevent memory leaks
					if ( this[i].nodeType === 1 ) {
						jQuery.cleanData( this[i].getElementsByTagName("*") );
						this[i].innerHTML = value;
					}
				}

			// If using innerHTML throws an exception, use the fallback method
			} catch(e) {
				this.empty().append( value );
			}

		} else if ( jQuery.isFunction( value ) ) {
			this.each(function(i){
				var self = jQuery( this );

				self.html( value.call(this, i, self.html()) );
			});

		} else {
			this.empty().append( value );
		}

		return this;
	},