Some of the attributes of a DOM object in IE are read-only. The "type" attribute is one of these and so cannot be assigned to AFTER the element is created.
JK -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of spinnach Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [jQuery] dynamic creation of an button anybody knows why the following fails in ie, but works ok in firefox? $('<input>').attr({'type': 'button', 'id':'some-id', 'value': 'yes'}) when i remove the type hash attribute, it works: $('<input type="button">').attr({'id':'some-id', 'value': 'yes'}); dennis.
