How to make an empty anchor tag clickable in IE7?

Question

I need to make an area within a background image clickable to generate an event for JavaScript use. So, I created an anchor tag and inside that I inserted some relevant text

Answer 1

Get rid of the semantically meaningless tags and use normal CSS image replacement, instead.

foo

And then the CSS:

a { 
    width:100px; 
    height:100px; 
    display:block; 
    text-indent:-9999px; 
    background:url(/img.png) no-repeat;
}

Add whatever positioning you need, and it should work just fine.