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Asked: 2026-06-15T05:49:39+00:00

I have a <label><label/> tag inside <A><A/> tag, the <A> tag has a href

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I have a <label><label/> tag inside <A><A/> tag, the <A> tag has a href that calls a JavaScript function.

The JavaScript fails to call when run under IE, but works a treat on all the others I need it too.

I know this is probably not normal, but I’m looking for a speech reader quick fix to a really old project, so lets not get into the why’s and why not’s. 🙂

I’ve searched and can find no reference as to why this does not work, heres my test code.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Label and Links Test For Speech Readers</title>
</head>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    function onHello()
    {
        alert("hello");
    }    
</script>

<body>
    <p><b>Label and Links Test For Speech Readers</b></p>
    <p>This is a test a patch to an historic application, Tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE & BlackBerry OS-6(similator)</p>
    <p>
        # TEST 1<br />
        <a href="javascript:onHello();">Hello1</a>
        <br />Current basic link style, that doesn't work with speech readers
    </p>
    <p>
        # TEST 2<br />
        <a href="javascript:onHello();"><label style="cursor:pointer">Hello2</label></a>
        <br />Easy fix, but this does not work for IE
    </p>
    <p>
        # TEST 3<br />
        <label onclick="javascript:onHello();" style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;">Hello3</label>
        <br />More work to fix, but compatible with all noted broswers
    </p>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Don’t put Javascript in the href, that is disabled in some browsers under some circumstances, for security reasons.

    Use the onclick event to run code:

    <a href="#" onclick="onHello();return false;"><label style="cursor:pointer">Hello2</label></a>
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