This (very) small plugins is the incestuous child of “append” and “text”: it appends a new Text Node.
This is especially important when you want to append user-supplied input, because a Text Node is never interpreted as HTML.
var $myLabel = $("<label/>") .append("<input type='checkbox'/>") .appendText("use HTML <a href=''>");
Will add to the DOM the equivalent of the following HTML:
<label><input type='checkbox'/>use HTML <a href=''></label>