Anchor tag with role of button but no href is not recognized as a button in Internet Explorer

**Reported by javis on 2012-10-26 14:26**
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
    <a onClick="return false" role="button">This is a button</a>
    <a onClick="return false" role="button" href="javascript:void(0);">This is a button</a>
    <a onClick="return false" role="button" href="javascript:void(0);">This is a button</a>
</body>
</html>

The following markup will only recognize the anchor tags with a href attribute as buttons in Internet Explorer. In Firefox they are all recognized as buttons.


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