Make a HTML link that does nothing (literally nothing)

Question

I want a link that does nothing. I don\'t want this:

because then the URL becomes something.com/whatever/#.

Answer 1

one way which no one has mentioned is to point the href to an empty local file location like so

my dead link

why? If you use a framework such as react or angular, the compiler will spit out some warnings which can make your log or console dirty. This technique will also prevent robots or spiders from incorrectly linking things.