title: How to set inner HTML of a span element using jQuery
body: <p>The following gives me the error <em>Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier</em>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('span.xtro').html('');
  $('span.xtro').html('&lt;input type='button' class='newbutton send' value='Send request' onclick= 
                        "javascript:request('send','1','2');'&gt;');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>How can I correct this?</strong></p>