jQuery Templates with Leaflet

Question

Is it possible to render a template like jsRender to a div created with Leaflet's .create method as follows?

info.onAdd = function (map) {
    this._div = L.DomUtil.create('div', 'info');
    this.update();
    return this._div;
};

Using JsRender, a JavaScript template library and jQuery, I was able to create a template reading the selected feature properties. See following code.

function highlightFeature(e) {
    var layer = e.target;
    thisTown = e.target.feature.properties;
    $("#townList").html( // a <ul>
        $("#townTemplate").render(thisTown)
    );
...
}

I've tried countless variations to no avail.