Removing html5 required attribute with jQuery

Question

Hi I would like to remove the 'required=""' attribute with jquery.

<input 
   type="text" 
   id="edit-submitted-first-name" 
   name="submitted[first_name]" 
   value="" 
   size="30" 
   maxlength="128" 
   required=""
>

Answer 1

Just:

$('#edit-submitted-first-name').removeAttr('required');?????

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