Creating Button elements - form-submit issue

Greetings, salutations.

When creating an input element, one must declare the type, which then becomes immutable.el = document.createElement('input');
el.type = 'text';Fine. No problem. However! When creating a button element, one may not declare the type, as it is created as immutable..el = document.createElement('button');
el.type = "button";
My issue is that I don't want this button to submit the form, which it does because the default button type is "submit." Quote the spec:<!ELEMENT BUTTON - -
(%flow;)* -(A|%formctrl;|FORM|FIELDSET)
-- push button -->
<!ATTLIST BUTTON
...
type (button|submit|reset) submit -- for use as form button --
...>
The oddest part is that after the button is created, alert(el.type) yields undefined in the alert.

Does anyone know more about using the button element with DOM?

That is kind of weird..

To be quite honest with you, I've used this in the past, but apparently it's incorrect:

el = document.createElement("<button onClick='alert()'>");
el.appendChild(document.createTextNode("push me"));


And that should create a regular button, not a <input type="submit">

I've never had the opportunity to test this out in NS or any other browser other than IE, so that may be IE only..

Hope that helps,
Sadiq.

try: el.setAttribute("type", "button")