Actually another is to just hide it using CSS:
$("#inputID").hide();
Karl Rudd
On 8/27/07, Karl Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's a "quirk" of IE, nothing to do with jQuery. It doesn't allow you
> to change the "type" of an "input" element once it's created.
>
> The best you could do would be to create a new "hidden" field and copy
> across the contents of the visible element. Then delete the visible
> element.
>
> Karl Rudd
>
> On 8/27/07, Minh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Getting an error when I tried to set a input attribute to hidden in
> > v1.1.2, v.1.1.3.1 and v1.1.4. Using $
> > ("#inputID").attr({'type':'hidden'}) and $
> > ("#inputID").attr("type","hidden").
> >
> >
>
