Getting JQuery html() with no character escaping

I have the following problem:

var bodyHtml = 'Test7\n'
  + '<a href="www.google.com">Google</a>\n'
  + '<a href="www.google.com">Google</a>\n'
  + '<a href="www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a>';    

var $tempHtml = $("<tempHtml/>").html(bodyHtml);

$tempHtml.find("a").each(function (index, a) {
  var url = $(a).attr("href");
  if (url === "www.google.com") {
    $(a).attr("href", "<%= track(1) %>");
  }
});

bodyHtml = $tempHtml.html();

Here is a JSBin for this. The problem that I have with this is that the JQuery .html() function replaces <% inside href tags with &lt% (escapes it). Is there any way of preventing this escaping since I need the string bodyHtml to remain unchanged?

I know how this could be done over RegEx, but this JQuery solution seems better if it could be done.