Replacing href in links may also change content of links

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Under some circumstances the changing the href-attribute of a link also changes the content of the link itself.

This seems to happen when the raw content of the link starts with www.something (and does not need to relatve to the real href in anyway).

Putting redundant span-tags inside the link solves this.

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Markus Fischer.

Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7 beta 2 | Reported on 20 October 2005.

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