Button styled links: text not click- / tapable - not only ie

[MauriceG]

The text of button styled links is (again?) not click- / tapable.
It's not only the IE like mentioned at #2858 having that issue with inputs of type button.

The ui-btn-text class gives the button-label a z-index of 1 and so it is elevated
above the link and does not feel addressed when clicked/taped.
And, the span containing the label is outside of the anchor, what is different to, for example,
anchors in navbars, which do not show this issue.

I've tested this issue on FF 7, Chrome 15, Safari 5.0 / 5.1 on WinXP/7 and iPad 2 iOS5 (with spiky finger)
and I've built a little demo at http://jsfiddle.net/MauriceG/BwdDk/

I can't recognize any issue with a z-index of 0 with the browsers above,
but i don't have all that devices to test it. And may it would be better to render
"standalone"-button styled links like button styled links in navbars.

[MauriceG]

There is a pull #2674 from @Wilto, about three weeks old, which adresses the same issue.
In RC2 the z-index account of ui-btn-text is still 1. ?

[toddparker]

This is really odd because I cannot reproduce this on http://jquerymobile.com/test/ - all the text on buttons works when clicking them.

I also took the full head from your fiddle to grab the theme and made this jsbin with a super simple example and clicking the text works fine:
http://jsbin.com/akaxah/5/edit
http://jsbin.com/akaxah/5

[MauriceG]

I'm still searching for the reason, but I couldn't take a look at your jsbin demo result, cause of SyntaxError: Parse error @ edit#html,live:42
The result page just shows undefined. I see this with every jsbin ...
I've tried with Safari 5.0.5, FF 7, Chrome 15 on WinXP right now.

[toddparker]

The hashes jsbin uses confuse jQM. Just hack those off to view:
http://jsbin.com/akaxah/5

or add /edit/ to edit
http://jsbin.com/akaxah/5/edit

[MauriceG]

Seems to be fixed. :-)