does jquery remove css style?

[qnikias]

I'm tying to troubleshoot a problem with my css. I have the following div tag: \[code\]<div class="span1" id="progress-indicator" style="text-align:left; border:2px solid #000;">&nbsp;</div>\[/code\]Later on in my script section of the code, I do something like this:\[code\] $('#progress-indicator').html("saving changes....");\[/code\]When you use the html() method, is it only changing the space between the opening / closing div tags or does it change the attributes of the div tag? I'm asking because once this jquery is called, the size of the div seems bigger than a span1 div should be. Thanks.