material-components / material-components/material-web

click() on an href icon-button has no effect.

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Description

### What is affected?

Component

### Description

Using `.click()` programmatically on a `` (and variants) doesn't open the link referenced by the `href` attribute.

**Comparatively, this behavior works on `` (and variants)**

### Reproduction

https://lit.dev/playground/#gist=6d9560e7ff4fdcfaefd559de9f12349a

### Workaround

workaround not found yet.

### Is this a regression?

No or unsure. This never worked, or I haven't tried before.

### Affected versions

1.3.0

### Browser/OS/Node environment

everywhere

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Research direction

Start with the linked Lit Playground reproduction and compare the md-icon-button variants with md-text-button, where programmatic click() already opens an href. Trace the component behavior responsible for handling href and click(), then verify that clicking the icon button programmatically navigates to its link without breaking the existing text-button behavior.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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