IE8 mailto shows up in anchor text

[jgallen23]

For some reason when you use the same variable (in this case email) when doing a mailto the entire link shows up in the anchor text. Works fine in all other browsers.

http://jsfiddle.net/mt4e5/4/

[IgorMinar]

that's weird..

somehow the anchor text is reset to mailto:... does anybody in the community want to debug this?

[jgallen23]

A workaround is to wrap the anchor text in a span tag
http://jsfiddle.net/mt4e5/7/

[IgorMinar]

related:

• http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com.es/2008/07/bug-140-changing-mailto-links-error-in.html
• http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8805