Selecting a tag in jQuery

Selecting a tag in jQuery

Say we have html
<ul>
  <li>First</li>
  <li>Second</li>
  <li>Third</li>
  <li>Fourth</li>
  <li>Fifth</li>
</ul>
<ul id="results">
</ul>

Then if I try
$('<li>').text('hi');
nothing happens. What does $('<li>') do as opposed to $('li')? Thanks.



Refer to the second example from  http://api.jquery.com/map/