I want to have an anchor with a specific height and width.
There is no text on it since it\'s meant to be put in front of a certain area of the page.
Here is the
another way of handling this issue is a little "hack/workaround", when the block element got a background-color everything is fine, as you aspect it. make use of something like this:
a { .. background-color: white; opacity: 0; filter: alpha(opacity=0); .. }