Question

I’ve been looking on the internet for solutions as to why IE7 isn’t opening links correctly for example

    <a href="http://www.google.com"><button class="class1">Google</button></a>

Does IE7 not like having ?

I hear I should use jquery for this? But no one linked to any article.

Answer 1

According to the W3C’s specifications on anchor (<a>) tags and <button> tags, you should be able to do that fine, but according to a quick Google search, you can’t and/or shouldn’t do it, and it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer.

This article actually recommends adding Javascript, so the link can be opened in IE also:

<a href="http://www.expertsguide.info/"><button type="button" onclick="window.location('http://www.expertsguide.info/')">Click Me to go to Experts Guide</button></a>