Can't create button-element using $E in IE8

Hi Claus,

Yup, that might be a rightjs problem. people normally don't use BUTTON tags, coz they send different form values in IE and w3c (IE sends the text inside of the tags and w3c send the value attribute), so it probably wasn't noticed before.

I'll check it out shortly

Looks like setting the "type"-Attribute actually causes the error:

b = $E('button');
b.set('type', 'foo');
--> ERROR

however:

b._.setAttribute('type', 'submit');
---> WORKS

b.get('type');
--> "submit"

So, is perhaps the element#set method doing something that IE doesn't like?

btw, did you check what your form actually sends to the server in IE? there is a similar issue with checkboxes, when you create a checkbox programmatically in IE and set the 'checked' value, it seems working correctly in JavaScript debugging but the browser doesn't send anything to the server in reality

Nik, thanks for pointing this out. I've checked and the button seems to work fine in IE.

I've had so many surprises with IE-browsers that a "it works" makes me suspicious :-}

In my case, a simple workaround would be to leave the "type: 'submit'" Attribute out when creating the button, since it's the default-value for buttons. But this doesn't solve the general issue.