Rails: using link_to to make a link without href

Question

How can I use the link_to helper to make a link without an href attribute? I want to make a link exclusively for a javascript action, I don\'t want

Answer 1

I prefer using plain HTML without href attribute at all in such cases:

Open dialog

IMHO it is more readable than content_tag("a","link text").

• The disadvantage of href=# is that the browser will scroll to the top when clicked by default
• javascript:; looks ugly