SO fiddle
Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions
by Nick Craver
HTML
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.4/themes/overcast/jquery-ui.css">
<form action="" method="get"><button id="test">test</button></form>JavaScript
alert($('#test').attr('type', 'button').attr('type'));