Qualify
After \"href\" is removed, is \"Qualify\"
If you want your anchor to still appear to be clickable:
$("a").removeAttr("href").css("cursor","pointer");
And if you wanted to remove the href from only anchors with certain attributes (eg ones that just have a hash mark as the href - this can be useful in asp.net)
$("a[href='#']").removeAttr("href").css("cursor","pointer");