jQuery create element with attribute differences

Question

Discovered something and am looking into a bit of incite as to why one way works and the other doesn\'t. Looks to be only an IE7 thing but as IE7, sigh, still needs some su

Answer 1

The answer can be found in the API for the jQuery() function itself.

Note: Internet Explorer will not allow you to create an input or button element and change its type; you must specify the type using for example. A demonstration of this can be seen below:

Unsupported in IE:

$('', {
    type: 'text',
    name: 'test'
}).appendTo("body");

Supported workaround:

$('').attr({
    name: 'test'
}).appendTo("body");