IE bug when appending html button

Reported by:	kevin_aceace@hotmail.com	Owned by:
Priority:	low	Milestone:	1.next
Component:	attributes	Version:	1.5
Keywords:		Cc:
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Description

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.

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Change History (4)

Changed February 20, 2011 01:20AM UTC by kevin_aceace@hotmail.com comment:1

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

Changed February 20, 2011 01:58AM UTC by dmethvin comment:2

resolution:	→ duplicate
status:	new → closed

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

Changed February 20, 2011 01:58AM UTC by dmethvin comment:3

Duplicate of #8232.

Changed February 20, 2011 12:30PM UTC by jitter comment:4

_comment0:	→ 1298205047064699
component:	unfiled → attributes
priority:	undecided → low

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

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