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copied!<p>Try this:</p> <pre><code>var button = $('<button type="button"/>'); </code></pre> <p>Now, as it happens, the default type for buttons is "button" anyway in IE (7 at least, not sure about standards-mode 8). However the above should work. I just ran into this the other day. IE lets you provide the type right there in the element syntax when creating elements, and it seems that jQuery is pretty much passing its argument straight through to the low-level DOM API here.</p> <p>Oh, and it works fine in FF and Chrome too.</p> <hr> <p><em>edit</em> — well what a difference a year makes, eh? I cannot get that mechanism to work for me at all now with jQuery 1.4.4 or jQuery 1.5.x. The good news is that jQuery 1.6 appears to work the way the OP wanted: via setting "type" in a more normal jQuery-like way.</p> <p>What <em>does</em> seem to work, however, is to directly call ".setAttribute()" on the element. Thus:</p> <pre><code>var b = $('<button/>'); b[0].setAttribute('type', 'button'); </code></pre> <p>does <em>not</em> throw an exception, and it <em>does</em> set the "type" attribute properly. (That's itself a little bizarre, as Microsoft clearly documents "type" as being read-only.) The change in 1.6 seems to be along the same lines. Formerly, the library did check "type" and would explicitly disallow its being set on elements already in the DOM, but would proceed to try and set it as a simple attribute for an element not in the DOM. Now, the 1.6 code calls ".setAttribute()" to set "type", which (for reasons unknown to me) works fine.</p>

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