why creating a style element doesn't work? [duplicate]

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Creating a CSS class in jQuery

$("< style>span{color:red}< /style>");


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Heh, interesting idea.

This works if you insert the element into the DOM:

 $('head').append($("<style>span{color:red}</style>"));

jsFiddle

Dynamically fiddling with CSS usually has some side effects, but this should okay: It works fine even in IE6.

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$("<style>span{color:red}</style>").appendTo('head'); ?