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 know this is tagged as a jQuery question, but you can answer this with AngularJS, also.

in your element, add the ng-click directive and use the $event variable which is the click event... prevent its default behavior:

You can even pass the $event variable into a function:

in that function, you do whatever you want with the click event.