how to use jquery to creat self-closing label?

I tried this:

$('<input class="inputName" type="text" />').appendTo($('body'))

but it turns out

&开发者_StackOverflow中文版lt;body><input class="inputName" type="text"></body>

Is there a way to creat the proper self-closing label?

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What you are doing is in fact correct. Ensure your DOCTYPE is XHTML.

Edit: You don't have to worry about any of this since the code won't pass through validators anyway (validators do not execute javascript).