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Adding a dropdown button with JQuery produces a usable dropdown
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test data-* attributes</title>
<link href="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/2.2.2/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div id="foo">
<a href="#" class="btn" id="showdropdown">Show dropdown</a>
</div>
<div id="bar">
</div>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/2.2.2/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#showdropdown").click(function() {
$("#bar").html('<div class="btn-group dropdown" id="messages">'+
'<a class="btn dropdown-toggle btn-mini btn-success" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">'+
'<i class="icon-envelope icon-white"></i> '+
'</a>'+
'<ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">' +
'<li><a href="#">Four</a></li>' +
'<li><a href="#">Five</a></li>' +
'<li><a href="#">Six</a></li>' +
'</ul>' +
'</div>');
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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