JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<div id="test-1"></div>
<div id="test-2"></div>
JavaScript
var html = "<form action='http://www.google.com/' id='test'>foo</form> bar",
el1 = document.getElementById('test-1'),
el2 = document.getElementById('test-2'),
$el2 = jQuery(el2);
// innerHTML
el1.innerHTML = html;
alert(el1.innerHTML);
$el2.html(el1.innerHTML);
alert(el2.innerHTML);