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:

link

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Answer 1

This answer should be updated to reflect new web standards (HTML5).

This:

This represents a placeholder hyperlink

... is valid HTML5. The tabindex attribute makes it keyboard focusable like normal hyperlinks. You might as well use the span element for this as mentioned previously, but I find using the a element more elegant.

See: https://w3c.github.io/html-reference/a.html
and: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#attr-hyperlink-href