Accessing jQuery objects in the module pattern

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Published on 2011-01-16T23:23:54Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 0:53 UTC
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Hello,

Really getting in to javascript and looking around at some patterns. One I have come accross is the module pattern. Its seems like a nice way to think of chucks of functionality so I went ahead and tried to implement it with jQuery. I ran in to a snag though. Consider the following code

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
        <title>index</title>        
        <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
            $(document).ready(function(){

                var TestClass2 = (function(){
                    var someDiv;            
                    return {
                        thisTest: function ()
                        {
                               someDiv = document.createElement("div");
                                   $(someDiv).append("#index");
                                   $(someDiv).html("hello");
                                   $(someDiv).addClass("test_class");
                        }
                    }
                })();

                TestClass2.thisTest();          

            });
        </script>

    </head>

    <body id="index" onload="">

        <div id="name">
            this is content
        </div>

    </body>
</html>

The above code alerts the html content of the div and then adds a class. These both use jQuery methods. The problem is that the .html() method works fine however i can not add the class. No errors result and the class does not get added. What is happening here? Why is the class not getting added to the div?

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