Ion-list: item class a A tag

using ion-item, how do you get the ‘item’ class applied to the a tag?
This puts the ‘>’ on the right-hand side

I hacked the directive template
from

<a class="item-content" ng-href="{{ href }}" ng-transclude></a>\

to
<a class="item item-content" ng-href="{{ href }}" ng-transclude></a>\

and that have me the outcome I was after

based on this example
http://codepen.io/ionic/pen/JsHjf

from this forum post
List View is not working properly in v0.9.26-alpha-923

it looks like the nightly (v0-9-26) has resolved this issue.