Can jQuery create an element by a selector?

Question

Normally I would create an element in jQuery like this $('<div id="errors" class="red"></div>')

Can I create an element given a selector using something like $.create("div#errors.red")? Where that would return a jQuery object representing a div with the id of errors and the class of red?

Answer 1

You can try

$("<div id="errors" class="red"></div>").appendTo("body");