IE bug when appending html button

[kevin_aceace@…]

The following line of code causes a javascript error in IE8 (and probably older versions) but works fine in FireFox:

$('<button/>').addClass('btnShowAll').attr({title: 'Show All, No Search Conditions', type: 'button'}).html('Show All').appendTo('body');

If you remove the type attribute from the attr array, it works fine. I am currently working around the bug by using the following line of code which works fine in both browsers:

$('<button class="btnShowAll" type="button" title="Show All, No Search Conditions">Show All</button>').appendTo('body')

According to w3schools ( http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_button_type.asp), type="button" is the default for IE and not the W3C standard which is type="submit" but I don't think this shouldn't cause an error.

[kevin_aceace@…]

jsfiddle link with test case:  http://jsfiddle.net/m9SVV/

[dmethvin]

Sorry but IE won't allow you to change the type of a button. See the remarks here and in the dup:

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534700%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

[dmethvin]

Duplicate of #8232.

[jitter]

This restriction is also noted in the docs.  http://api.jquery.com/attr