How to make an anchor tag refer to nothing?

Question

I use jQuery, I need to make some anchor tags perform no action.

I usually write it like this:

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Answer 1

The correct way to handle this is to "break" the link with jQuery when you handle the link

HTML

My Link

JS

$('#theLink').click(function(ev){
    // do whatever you want here

    ev.preventDefault();
    ev.stopPropagation();
});

Those final two calls stop the browser interpreting the click.