document.createElement is not working in IE8

The document.createElement('a') tag is not working in IE8 in this snippet of code. It works fine in chrome and firefox. When I check through IE, it see开发者_如何学Pythonms as if its the first line of code that's broken.

        item = document.createElement('a');
        item.setAttribute('id', 'memorize');
        item.innerHTML = "<?php echo wzfactory::get_xml('menu_item', 4, $com); ?>";
        item.setAttribute('class', 'menu_button');
        item.onclick = function() {redirect('memorizor', 'memorize', 0);};
        menu_div.appendChild(item);

Does anybody know why this is the case, and if there is a crappy browser workaround? I haven't been able to find the workaround.

Couple of things that might "break" the functionality.. try this instead:

item = document.createElement('a');
item.id = 'memorize';
item.href = "#";
item.innerHTML = "<?php echo wzfactory::get_xml('menu_item', 4, $com); ?>";
item.className 'menu_button';
item.onclick = function() {
    redirect('memorizor', 'memorize', 0);
    return false;
};
menu_div.appendChild(item);

First, assign the id directly and not via setAttribute and second, anchor without href becomes mere text, not link so you must assign that attribute.