jQuery - Appending a div to body, the body is the object?

When I'm adding a div to body, it's returning the body as the object and then whenever I use that - it's obviously using body. Bad.

Code:-

var holdyDiv = $('body').append('div');
$(holdyDiv).attr('id', 'holdy');

The 'id' of holdy is now being added to body... eh? What am I doing wrong.

jQuery methods returns the set they were applied on.

Use .appendTo:

var $div = $('<div />').appendTo('body');
$div.attr('id', 'holdy');

    $('body').append($('<div/>', {
        id: 'holdy' 
    }));

$('</div>').attr('id', 'holdy').appendTo('body');

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