jquery appendTo removes javascript script tags

var testdiv = '<div id="hello"><p>hiii</p>
               <script type="text/javascript">some javascript functions</script>
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$(testdiv).appendTo(document.body);

After running above code, div that is added is missing javascript, i.e everything inside < script type="text/javascript" >

Is this known issue with appendTo ?

You might need to chop up the <script> tags. This works:

var testdiv = '<div id="hello"><p>hiii</p><scr'+'ipt type="text/javascript">console.log("buu")</scr'+'ipt></div>';
$(testdiv).appendTo(document.body);

var testdiv = '<div id="hello"><p>hiii</p><script type="text/javascript">alert(\'foo\')</script></div>';
$(testdiv).appendTo(document.body);

I replaced "some javascript" with an alert, and it works fine for me. Note that I had to escape the quotes I was using in the string, that may have been it.

I agree with jonscottclark about getScript(). There are indeed much better ways to include and execute additional scripts.