You can’t do this with jQuery, it explicitly forbids it because IE doesn’t support it (check your console you’ll see an error.
You have to remove the input and create a new one if that’s what you’re after, for example:
$('.form').find('input:password').each(function() { $("<input type='text' />").attr({ name: this.name, value: this.value }).insertBefore(this); }).remove();
To be clear on the restriction, jQuery will not allow changing type
on a <button>
or <input>
so the behavior is cross-browser consistent (since IE doens’t allow it, they decided it’s disallowed everywhere). When trying you’ll get this error in the console:
Error: type property can’t be changed