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

There are ways of doing it with angular2, but I strongly disagree this is a bug. I'm not familiarized with angular1, but this seems like a really wrong behavior even though as you claim is useful in some cases, but clearly this should not be the default behavior of any framework.

Disagreements aside you can write a simple directive that grabs all your links and check for href's content and if the length of it it's 0 you execute preventDefault(), here's a little example.

@Directive({
  selector : '[href]',
  host : {
    '(click)' : 'preventDefault($event)'
  }
})
class MyInhertLink {
  @Input() href;
  preventDefault(event) {
    if(this.href.length == 0) event.preventDefault();
  }
}

You can make it to work across your application by adding this directive in PLATFORM_DIRECTIVES

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

Here's a plnkr with an example working.

Answer 2

I am using this workaround with css:

/*** Angular 2 link without href ***/
a:not([href]){
    cursor: pointer; 
    -webkit-user-select: none; 
    -moz-user-select: none; 
    user-select: none
}

html

<a [routerLink]="/">My link</a>

Hope this helps

Answer 3

In my case deleting href attribute solve problem as long there is a click function assign to a.

Answer 4

Here is a simple way

  <div (click)="$event.preventDefault()">
            <a href="#"></a>
   </div>

capture the bubbling event and shoot it down