md-button for anchor element is visually not same as button

[metanav]

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

Bug

What is the expected behavior?

 <a  md-button color="primary" [routerLink]="['/gotosomewhere']">Click me</a>

The button created using anchor element should be visually same as button element.

What is the current behavior?

It is not same. There is no mouse (one finger hand) icon and text is dimmed.

What are the steps to reproduce?

Just upgraded from alpha9 to alpha10.

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

None

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, browsers are affected?

Material alpha10

Is there anything else we should know?

None

[kyleledbetter]

it's bc it's getting disabled="false" by default and to an <a> tag that's still styled as disabled, probably from this commit 6b9e11c#diff-96337821f283af0f38c4fd8ed4c98065R46

[kyleledbetter]

'[attr.disabled]': 'disabled', <-- anchors
'[disabled]': 'disabled', <-- buttons

[Splaktar]

Yep, this is a regression that I'm seeing as well. It's caused by PR #1778. There is PR #1789 already open to fix it, but it didn't make it into alpha.10 unfortunately.

[Splaktar]

I spent a good while trying to work around this issue and override styles, etc. But it was just too much trouble. I've had to roll back to alpha.9-3.

Update: This did get into 2.0.0-alpha.11 though. Thanks!

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