with an inner not triggering :active state in IE 8

Question

I want to style the :active state of a button that is represented by an tag. The tag has an inner

Answer 1

You can fix it using this:

$('.yourspan').mousedown(function(){
    $(this).parents('.youranchor:first').css("background-position","bottom");   
}); 
$('.yourspan').mouseup(function(){
    $(this).parents('.youranchor:first').css("background-position","top");  
});