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HTML

<div id="parentDiv"><div>

JavaScript

// my html string :)
var myString = '&lt;div id="newDiv"&gt; hello &lt;/div&gt;';

// html decode the string    
myString = $("<div />").html(myString).text();

// appending the string
$("#parentDiv").append(myString);


//$('#newDiv').css('color', 'red');

$('#newDiv').remove();