JQuery html() vs. innerHTML

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To answer your question:

.html() will just call .innerHTML after doing some checks for nodeTypes and stuff. It also uses a try/catch block where it tries to use innerHTML first and if that fails, it’ll fallback gracefully to jQuery’s .empty() + append()

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