Using the tag and jQuery in IE8?

Click this button EDIT OK, tested it out more thoroughly, and found that the call to .attr() was dumbing down IE's Javascript engine. After removing that from your jQuery chain, it worked in IE8. If you think about it, since you're instantiating a anyway, you don't need to set it's type to "button".

$('') //. Attr({ 'type': 'button' }) . Css({ 'cursor': 'pointer' }) .

Text('Button') . Click(function () { alert('clicked'); }) . AppendTo('#btn') ; http://jsfiddle.net/9xUj5.

My careless mistake, but that wasn't it. Still does not work after properly closing. – Khnle Nov 15 at 23:12 Appended to my answer.

That did the trick for me. – Richard Neil Ilagan Nov 15 at 23:16.

Try jsfiddle.net/jJbNt/16/ - Shouldn't really make a difference, try it though.

It seems IE8 and older are having a problem parsing the 'type' attribute. Removing this or updating jQuery to 1.7 fixes solves the issue.

Just take out the . Attr(...) and it will work fine (example). Button doesn't seem to have a type attribute that is visible in IE from javascript; you were thinking maybe of input?

That's not true - button does have a type attribute - w3. Org/TR/html4/interact/forms. Html#h-17.5 – christian.

Thomas Nov 15 at 23:19 does have a type attribute, with the possible options 'button', 'reset' and 'submit'. – amustill Nov 15 at 23:20 Sorry, I was speaking in the context of IE and javascript; I've clarified (and many thanks! ) – Kato Nov 15 at 23:22.

You have a bunch of problems: Older versions of IE have some issues with the tag which may or may not be your problem here. There is no type attribute on the button tag. You are missing a closing in your HTML.

You should use instead. See here: jsfiddle.net/jfriend00/e8eGW/ for a working version. Click this button $('').

Css({ 'cursor': 'pointer' }). Click(function () { alert('clicked'); }). AppendTo($('#btn')).

1 The tag is supported in all versions of IE. IE6 has a bug in that it doesn't submit the value of the button, but other than that it's fully supported. – amustill Nov 15 at 23:19 wait, I'm curious now; which versions don't support button?

A quick search shows support all the way back to IE 4; is there something more obscure that you found? – Kato Nov 15 at 23:21 There are various IE bugs associated with the button tag. You can use it in many cases, but I find it safer to not worry about those bugs and use: which also works fine in this case.

– jfriend00 Nov 15 at 23:28 IE8 is old? Hard sell to customers who just updated to IE8 from 6. Missing closing div is just a mistake when I created the fiddle, i.e.

After I see the problem in my code, I used jsfiddle to illustrate. Unfortunately, a careless mistake. 3.Is what I tried to achieve by using jQuery to construct the DOM.

– Khnle Nov 15 at 23:35 IE8 is full of bugs. It was released almost three years ago which is pretty darn old by the pace of web development and replaced by IE9 which has been out for 8 months. Obviously one still has to support IE8, but yes it's old.

Who just upgraded from IE6 to IE8? Why wouldn't one run IE9 if you're upgrading? Standards support in IE9 is light years ahead of IE8.

– jfriend00 Nov 15 at 23:54.

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