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Answer 1

+6 A:

Don't forget the trailing semicolon:

button.html('&#10003;');

VoteyDisciple 2010-06-07 19:40:46

+1 for beating me by 7 seconds (and the exact same answer); wonder if it's really the problem

MvanGeest 2010-06-07 19:41:26

Wow... can't believe I missed that. I've been banging my head against the wall wondering what was wrong.Thank you soo soo much!

Sam 2010-06-07 19:45:12

And yes, that was the problem. Apparently FF is forgiving enough to display the character without the semicolon, but Chrome, not so much.

Sam 2010-06-07 19:52:28

Weirdness using jquery's .html() function to set <a></a> with a special character ✓ (checkmark)