a:hover does not work without href attribute in <a> ?

Is there a reason why this does NOT work in IE6.0 ?

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
a
{
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover
{
text-decoration: underline;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<a>Some text</a>
</body>
</html>

It only works when I add the href attribute:

<a href="">Some text</a>

I have already read that the <a> HTML tag is the only tag in IE that
supports the hover. I have created a treeview and all my <a> tags look like
this:

<div>
<a onClick="toggle(this)">Node 1</a>
</div>

In my toggle function I will set the style of the <div> to either
display:none or display:visible, that works. I need to hover of the <a> tag
so that whenever I move my mouse over Node 1 the background color changes.
How can I achieve this?

I am trying to create something similar like the treeview you can find at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp or does anybody know how the
deeptree.css looks like?

TIA

Gabriel Lozano-Morán


.

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