IE bug when changing href with JavaScript

When you attempt to change the href of an anchor in IE (when the text value contains chars that may tell its an anchor, eg. @, http://) the text value will be changed, as well.

Example:

<a href="http://google.com/">http://example.com/</a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $('document').ready(function () {
        $('a').attr('href', 'http://yahoo.com');
    });
</script>

On all browsers just the href changes - anchor text stays the same - example.com.
On IE the anchor text changes for the same value as its href - http://yahoo.com.

To prevent this issue on IE you can try to append invisible HTML entity, such as for example

<wbr> 

to break IE regexp.

Thats all!