$("myDiv").hide(); and $("myDiv").show(); does not work in Internet Explorer that well.
The way I got around this was to get the html content of myDiv using .html().
I then wrote it to a newly created DIV. I then appended the DIV to the body and appended the content of the variable Content to the HiddenField then read that contents from the newly created div when I wanted to show the DIV.
After I used the .remove() method to get rid of the DIV that was temporarily holding my DIVs html.
var Content = $('myDiv').html();
$('myDiv').empty();
var hiddenField = $("<input type='hidden' id='myDiv2'>");
$('body').append(hiddenField);
HiddenField.val(Content);
and then when I wanted to SHOW the content again.
var Content = $('myDiv');
Content.html($('#myDiv2').val());
$('#myDiv2').remove();
This was more reliable that the .hide() & .show() methods.