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Solution: jQuery .append() or .appendTo not working in IE8, IE7, or IE6

The solution to this is more of a warning: when you create elements in the DOM, if they are not closed, IE8, IE7 and IE6 will not allow any modification to that element, including .append() and .appendTo() because they are not considered standard or correct DOM elements, and hence are treated as text. Make sure that you close your elements such as <div></div><a></a>, etc. so the older browsers can tell what you are trying to do. All modern browsers including IE 9, will st

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Track Referer and Entry Page with a Cookie

I found this simple script on the internet by Ammon Johns. He was nice enough to share it as long as we give credit. His script was originally to track a referer. It sets a “referrer” cookie which you can pull into any document using the php code <?php echo $_COOKIE[‘referrer’] ?>. I hope that helps someone, it took me forever to figure it out. There is a way to pull the information with javascript too something like “document.cookie.referrer or some such, but i’m no expert in javascript y

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