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

I encountered this issue on a WordPress site. The headers on dropdown menus always had the attribute href="" and the header plugin being used only allowed standard urls. The easiest solution there was just to run this code in the footer:

jQuery('[href=""]').click(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
});

This will prevent blank anchors from doing anything.