JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<div id="console-log">
    <h3>Output:</h3>
</div>

JavaScript

var consoleLine = "<p class=\"console-line\"></p>";

console = {
    log: function (text) {
        $("#console-log").append($(consoleLine).html(text));
    }
};

var bad = $.parseHTML('<ul><<li><one/li>/<li>two</li></ul>');
console.log($(bad).find('li').length);
console.log($(bad).find('ul').length);

var good = $.parseHTML('<div><ul><<li><one/li>/<li>two</li></ul></div>');
console.log($(good).find('li').length);
console.log($(good).find('ul').length);