Making links with no href accessible

Question

A third party script is being used on a site I work on that replaces a few instances of with simple . The links still

Answer 1

Whilst it's not very pretty, you can get at all anchors without a href attribute like so, using jQuery;

$("a:not([href])")

You can then just set the href attribute on those links to "#" and that should make them work again as regular links.

Here's a working JSFiddle

Sorry to reply with a jQuery solution...but doing this in regular JavaScript would be much more verbose.

Another way would be to give the anchors a role and then select them that way:

$("a[role='link']")