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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>text setter demo</title>
  <style>
    body { font-family: sans-serif; padding: 16px; max-width: 520px; }
    p { color: blue; margin: 8px 0; padding: 8px; background: #f1f5f9; border-radius: 6px; }
    b { color: red; }
    button { margin-top: 12px; padding: 10px 16px; background: #6366f1; color: #fff; border: none; border-radius: 6px; cursor: pointer; }
    #hint { color: #64748b; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 10px; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <p><b>Original</b> bold content.</p>
  <button type="button">Set text with escaped tags</button>
  <p id="hint">$("p").text(" Some new text with &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt; tags.")</p>
  <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js"></script>
  <script>
    $("button").on("click", function() {
      $("p").not("#hint").text(" Some new text with <b>bold</b> tags.");
      $("#hint").text("Bold tags appear as literal characters — not rendered.");
    });
  </script>
</body>
</html>

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