setting the id attribute of an input element dynamically in IE: alternative for setAttribute method

This code work in IE7 and Chrome:

var hiddenInput = document.createElement("input");
    hiddenInput.setAttribute("id", "uniqueIdentifier");
    hiddenInput.setAttribute("type", "hidden");                     
    hiddenInput.setAttribute("value", 'ID');
    hiddenInput.setAttribute("class", "ListItem");

$('body').append(hiddenInput);

Maybe problem somewhere else ?