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To get the element/tag name with jQuery:

 $( '.selector' ).get( 0 ).tagName

In vim to undo is ‘u’ and to redo (i.e. undo undo) is ‘Ctrl+R’…

Found this which said:

$('<div/>').text('This is fun & stuff').html();

My CSS height value wasn’t being applied. Found this. The problem was that I needed to specify heights for all of the ancestor elements. Bug fixed!