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HTML

<div id="test-1">test</div>
<div id="test-2"></div>

JavaScript

var html = '<a href=http://www.google.com/>foo</a> bar',
    el1 = document.getElementById('test-1'),
    el2 = document.getElementById('test-2'),
    $el2 = jQuery(el2);

// innerHTML
el1.innerHTML = html;

console.log(el1.innerHTML); // <a href="http://www.google.com/">foo</a> bar

// jQuery#html
$el2.html(html);

console.log($el2.html()); // <a href="http://www.google.com"></a>foo bar