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

I know this is an old question, but I thought I'd add my two cents anyway:

It depends on what the link is going to do, but usually, I would be pointing the link at a url that could possibly be displaying/doing the same thing, for example, if you're making a little about box pop up:

About

Then with jQuery

$('#about').click(function(e) {
    $('#aboutbox').show();
    e.preventDefault();
});

This way, very old browsers (or browsers with JavaScript disabled) can still navigate to a separate about page, but more importantly, Google will also pick this up and crawl the contents of the about page.