Rendering Problem in IE8 with richFaces and JSF empty text node

Question

I have a form of the following type:

<rich:dataList var="var" value="#{bean}" styleClass="styleClass"><h:form>
 <h:commandLink value="#{var.prop}" action="#{bean.action}">
      <a4j:actionparam name="var" value="#{var.id}" assignTo="#{bea.sel}" />
 </h:commandLink>

Now, this is all fine in Firefox and IE 7. However, in IE 8 it creats empty text-nodes just before the link. I tried fixing it with the css.

form {
   display: block;
   zoom : 1;
}

This did help to render it correctly in IE 7. However, the empty text nodes are still created an cause problems with iE 8.