[jQuery] html to text

[jQuery] html to text


I'm pulling html from each td tag which resides in the tablerow of a
table like so;
$('table tr td').each(function()
{
    $('<div>').text($(this).html()).appendTo('#jaheur');
});
For each match it creates a div which holds the HTML in text format. I
noticed that it transformed a line break <br /> to
(without the
slash) what causes this behavior? Does this only happen with self
closing tags? Can I prevent it all together?