Changing href attribute value in IE 7+ also changes link text (innerHTML value)

[agtlewis]

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    jQuery(function() {
        jQuery("#articleBody a:not(.notrack)").attr("href", function(i, attr) {
            return 'http://domain.com/track_click.php?bid=13&pid=5037&destination=' + escape(attr);
        });
    });
});
</script>

<div id="articleBody" class="entry">
<p>Please contact me 555-1212 or by email at <a href="mailto:testing@domain.com" target="_blank">testing@domain.com</a></p>
</div>

Expected output:

<p>Please contact me 555-1212 or by email at <a href="http://domain.com/track_click.php?bid=13&amp;pid=5037&amp;destination=mailto%3Atesting@domain.com" target="_blank">testing@domain.com</a></p>

Actual output:

<p>Please contact me 555-1212 or by email at <a href="http://domain.com/track_click.php?bid=13&amp;pid=5037&amp;destination=mailto%3Atesting@domain.com" target="_blank">http://domain.com/track_click.php?bid=13&amp;pid=5037&amp;destination=mailto%3Atesting@domain.com</a></p>

[agtlewis]

Forgot to add in the summary that this only applies to mailto links. The code already posted will demonstrate the problem when tested on certain IE versions. I am getting reports of this happening with IE 7, and I confirmed it happens with IE 8.

[weirdan@…]

This has been reported and rejected as wontfix at least twice (not counting this ticket).

[timmywil]

actually patchwelcome

[timmywil]

Duplicate of #8805.