Hi, I noticed JQuery does some clean up while appending html to an element. This is a problem for me, because I'm trying to use a text area which gets loaded with a soap request. My soap request looks like this. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http:// www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soapenv:Body><ns1:echoInteger soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns1="http://ws.apache.org/axis2"><ns1:arg0 href="#id0"/></ ns1:echoInteger><multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="soapenc:int" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/ encoding/">1</multiRef></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope> JQuery is closing the tag <ns1:agro> as </ns1>. This makes my soap request invalid. Is there a way to turn off this feature? Even a workaround would be great!