Setting display: block on the anchor element is a solid suggestion, but I can think of another scenario that doesn't require explicitly setting it. Supposethe anchor is nested inside a div element with display: flex property. Then all the direct children of this div aka flex items become block elements and you can set height to the anchor. More @Wikipedia
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