How to disable HTML links

Question

I have a link button inside a which I have to disable. This works on IE but not working in Firefox and Chrome. Structure is - Link inside a <

Answer 1

To disable link to access another page on touch device:

if (control == false)
  document.getElementById('id_link').setAttribute('href', '#');
else
  document.getElementById('id_link').setAttribute('href', 'page/link.html');
end if;