Somewhere along my way, I lost my ability to use Firebug console, specifically, I could not use console.log(). Worse, I could not examine variables and DOM elements from the console. It would echo the thing I typed but not the result. For example, if I typed "5+5" into the console, the result should look like:
While broken, it only showed the ">>> 5+%".
I tracked it down to a jquery statement:
$('body').html("<div id='container'></div>");
When I changed it to:
$('body').append("<div id='expressbook'></div>");
It worked correctly.
Someone please explain.