New to the forums here - would appreciate some help if y'all have a min.

Any ideas why we would be seeing a distinctly inconsistent error in the following code block? I've had several reports of IE8 throwing a " Object doesn't support this property or method" error on line 3 below, though I've been unable to recreate the problem in some tests I've done in any IE mode (7,8,8c). (percent is reliably defined above)

1.  var link = "<a onclick='timerHow();'>How does our timer work?</a>";
2.  var newHTML = percent + "% Complete <br/><br/> " + link;   
3.  $("#block-course_timer-0 .content").html(newHTML);