jQuery setters act as getters if you pass undefined, breaking jQuery chainability

This code works fine most of the time:

var link = $('<a>').text(this.model.get('name'));

.text(), when used as a setter, returns a reference to the link and you can continue chaining to your heart's content.

That is, until this.model.get(‘name’) is undefined. When that happens, jQuery thinks you're .text() as a getter instead of a setter and link is set to an empty string instead of a jQueryified element -- which breaks subsequent code.