Passive Link in Angular 2 - equivalent

Question

In Angular 1.x I can do the following to create a link which does basically nothing:

My Link

But the same tag

Answer 1

Updated for Angular2 RC4:

import {HostListener, Directive, Input} from '@angular/core';

@Directive({
    selector: '[href]'
})
export class PreventDefaultLinkDirective {

    @Input() href;
    @HostListener('click', ['$event']) onClick(event) {this.preventDefault(event);}

    private preventDefault(event) {
        if (this.href.length === 0 || this.href === '#') {
            event.preventDefault();
        }
    }
}

Using

bootstrap(App, [provide(PLATFORM_DIRECTIVES, {useValue: PreventDefaultLinkDirective, multi: true})]);

Answer 2

you need to prevent event's default behaviour as follows.

In html

<a href="" (click)="view($event)">view</a>

In ts file

view(event:Event){
 event.preventDefault();
 //remaining code goes here..
}

Answer 3

I have 4 solutions for dummy anchor tag.

    1. <a style="cursor: pointer;"></a>
    2. <a href="javascript:void(0)" ></a>
    3. <a href="current_screen_path"></a>

4.If you are using bootstrap:

<button class="btn btn-link p-0" type="button" style="cursor: pointer"(click)="doSomething()">MY Link</button>

Answer 4

I wonder why no one is suggesting routerLink and routerLinkActive (Angular 7)

<a [routerLink]="[ '/resources' ]" routerLinkActive="currentUrl!='/resources'">

I removed the href and now using this. When using href, it was going to the base url or reloading the same route again.

Answer 5

simeyla solution:

<a href="#" (click)="foo(); false">
<a href="" (click)="false">

Answer 6

Updated for Angular 5

import { Directive, HostListener, Input } from '@angular/core';

@Directive({
  // tslint:disable-next-line:directive-selector
  selector : '[href]'
})
export class HrefDirective {
  @Input() public href: string | undefined;

  @HostListener('click', ['$event']) public onClick(event: Event): void {
    if (!this.href || this.href === '#' || (this.href && this.href.length === 0)) {
      event.preventDefault();
    }
  }
}