Setting name of DOM-created element fails in IE — workaround?

Question

I got bit hard by this today:

function mk_input( name, val ) {
    var inp = document.createElement( \'input\' );
    inp.name = name;
    inp.value = val;
          


        

Answer 1

They fixed this in IE8. In previous versions, you need to include the name when you call createElement. From MSDN:

Internet Explorer 8 and later can set the NAME attribute at run time on elements dynamically created with the IHTMLDocument2::createElement method. To create an element with a NAME attribute in earlier versions of Internet Explorer, include the attribute and its value when using the IHTMLDocument2::createElement method.

Here is the example from MSDN:

var newRadioButton = document.createElement("")