modal component -evt.preventDefault() & stopPropagation() interfering with <a href inside the modal

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Hello,

While following the course, I added an <a> tag with href='some_url', with the purpose of being able to go to that url upon clicking the button inside the modal;
The problem is that every click is met by the 'cancelClick()' function inside the component, which stops any event taking place; I'm not being taken to the link i want to go.
The only way this works is through a (click) event but it's not as clean.
Is there some easy work around for this?