jquery/jquery-mobile — Issue #2892: Button styled links: text not click- / tapable - not only ie
Author: MauriceG
Created: 2011-10-31 23:30:15+00:00
State: open

The text of button styled links is (again?) not click- / tapable.
It's not only the IE like mentioned at #2858 having that issue with inputs of type button.

The ui-btn-text class gives the button-label a __z-index of 1__ and so it is elevated
above the link and does not feel addressed when clicked/taped.
And, the span containing the label is outside of the anchor, what is different to, for example,
anchors in navbars, which do not show this issue.

I've tested this issue on FF 7, Chrome 15, Safari 5.0 / 5.1 on WinXP/7 and iPad 2 iOS5 (with spiky finger)
and I've built a little demo at http://jsfiddle.net/MauriceG/BwdDk/

I can't recognize any issue with a z-index of 0 with the browsers above,
but i don't have all that devices to test it. And may it would be better to render
"standalone"-button styled links like button styled links in navbars.