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

Make sure all your links that you want to stop have href="#!" (or anything you want, really), and then use this:

jq('body').on('click.stop_link', 'a[href="#!"]',
function(event) {
     event.preventDefault();
});