How do you make an anchor link non-clickable or disabled?

Question

I have an anchor link that I want to disable once the user clicks on it. Or, remove the anchor tag from around the text, but definitely keep the text.

Answer 1

I just realized what you were asking for(I hope). Here's an ugly solution

var preventClick = false;

$('#ThisLink').click(function(e) {
    $(this)
       .css('cursor', 'default')
       .css('text-decoration', 'none')

    if (!preventClick) {
        $(this).html($(this).html() + ' lalala');
    }

    preventClick = true;

    return false;
});