Your title question and your example are completely different.  I&#39;ll start by answering the title question:

    $(&quot;a&quot;).removeAttr(&quot;href&quot;);

And as far as not requiring an href, the generally accepted way of doing this is:

    &lt;a href&quot;#&quot; onclick=&quot;doWork(); return false;&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;

The return false is necessary so that the href doesn&#39;t actually go anywhere.

If you want your anchor to still appear to be clickable:

    $(&quot;a&quot;).removeAttr(&quot;href&quot;).css(&quot;cursor&quot;,&quot;pointer&quot;);

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)

    $(&quot;a[href=&#39;#&#39;]&quot;).removeAttr(&quot;href&quot;).css(&quot;cursor&quot;,&quot;pointer&quot;);



If you wanted to remove the href, change the cursor and also prevent clicking on it, this should work:

`$(&quot;a&quot;).attr(&#39;href&#39;, &#39;&#39;).css({&#39;cursor&#39;: &#39;pointer&#39;, &#39;pointer-events&#39; : &#39;none&#39;});`

If you [remove][1] the `href` attribute the anchor will be not focusable and it will look like simple text, but it will still be clickable.


  [1]: http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/removeAttr

Can any one tell me how to turn off automatic outlining in Visual Studio?  Outlining is the feature that collapses code into programmer defined regions.  

In my opinion, there are precious few circumstances where outlining is useful.  Yes, it makes large files easier to navigate, but mostly it obscures complexity.  My preference would be to have this feature turned off by default when opening a source file.

Turning off automatic outlining in Visual Studio

I can see there are a lot of questions for getting the number of pages in a a pdf with C, PHP and others but am wondering with a batch file or cmd is there a simple way of getting the number of pages?

Get number of pages in a pdf using a cmd batch file

    &lt;a id=&quot;a$id&quot; onclick=&quot;check($id,1)&quot; href=&quot;javascript:void(0)&quot;  class=&quot;black&quot;&gt;Qualify&lt;/a&gt;

After &quot;href&quot; is removed, is &quot;Qualify&quot; still clickable?

How to remove &quot;href&quot; with Jquery?

<pre><code class="hljs language-bash">&#x3C;a id="a$id" onclick="check($id,1)" href="javascript:void(0)" class="black">Qualify&#x3C;/a>
</code></pre>
After "href" is removed, is "Qualify" still clickable?

Considering

- business background
- community support
- available extensions
- default set of features
- simplicity of use
- and reliability

why do you prefer one over the another?

What does Google Closure Library offer over jQuery?

I have a timer in my JavaScript which needs to emulate clicking a link to go to another page once the time elapses. To do this I&#39;m using jQuery&#39;s `click()` function. I have used `$().trigger()` and `window.location` also, and I can make it work as intended with all three.

I&#39;ve observed some weird behavior with `click()` and I&#39;m trying to understand what happens and why.

I&#39;m using Firefox for everything I describe in this question, but I am also interested in what other browsers will do with this.

If I have not used `$(&#39;a&#39;).bind(&#39;click&#39;,fn)` or `$(&#39;a&#39;).click(fn)` to set an event handler, then calling `$(&#39;a&#39;).click()` seems to do nothing at all. It does not call the browser&#39;s default handler for this event, as the browser does not load the new page.

However, if I set an event handler first, then it works as expected, even if the event handler does nothing.

    $(&#39;a&#39;).click(function(){return true;}).click();

This loads the new page as if I had clicked the a myself.

So my question is twofold: Is this weird behavior because I&#39;m doing something wrong somewhere? and why does calling `click()` do nothing with the default behavior if I haven&#39;t created a handler of my own?

&lt;hr/&gt;

As Hoffman determined when he tried to duplicate my results, the outcome I described above doesn&#39;t actually happen. I&#39;m not sure what caused the events I observed yesterday, but I&#39;m certain today that it was not what I described in the question.

So the answer is that you can&#39;t &quot;fake&quot; clicks in the browser and that all jQuery does is call your event handler. You can still use `window.location` to change page, and that works fine for me.




Can I call jQuery&#39;s click() to follow an &lt;a&gt; link if I haven&#39;t bound an event handler to it with bind or click already?

Is there a way to pass a variable into a regex in jQuery/Javascript?

I wanna do something like:

    var variable_regex = &quot;bar&quot;;
    var some_string = &quot;foobar&quot;;

    some_string.match(/variable_regex/);

In Ruby you would be able to do:

`some_string.match(/#{variable_regex}/)`

Found a useful post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/185510/how-can-i-concatenate-regex-literals-in-javascript



How to pass a variable into regex in jQuery/Javascript

I have a div `&lt;div id=&quot;masterdiv&quot;&gt;` which has several child `&lt;div&gt;`s.

Example:

    &lt;div id=&quot;masterdiv&quot;&gt;
      &lt;div id=&quot;childdiv1&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;div id=&quot;childdiv2&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;div id=&quot;childdiv3&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;

How to clear the contents of all child `&lt;div&gt;`s inside the master `&lt;div&gt;` using jQuery?

How to clear all &lt;div&gt;s’ contents inside a parent &lt;div&gt;?

I use this jQuery code to set the mouse pointer to its busy state (hourglass) during an Ajax call...

    $(&#39;body&#39;).css(&#39;cursor&#39;, &#39;wait&#39;);

and this corresponding code to set it back to normal...

    $(&#39;body&#39;).css(&#39;cursor&#39;, &#39;auto&#39;);

This works fine... on some browsers.

On Firefox and IE, as soon as I execute the command, the mouse cursor changes. This is the behavior I want.

On Chrome and Safari, the mouse cursor does not visibly change from &quot;busy&quot; to &quot;auto&quot; until the user moves the pointer.

What is the best way to get the reluctant browsers to switch the mouse pointer?

Getting the browser cursor from &quot;wait&quot; to &quot;auto&quot; without the user moving the mouse


The `&lt;a&gt;` tag is used to create hyperlinks but in this age of jQuery and Ajax we are using it to load HTML into `&lt;div&gt;`s in the same page as the `&lt;a&gt;` tags.

That said, we set the `href` atribute as `href=&quot;#&quot;`, using or rather abusing the `#` character as a placeholder along with some undesirable side effects like the URL getting appended with the `#` character.

And if you leave the `href` attribute blank `href = &quot;&quot;`, the link does not seem to work.

Is there anyway to do this in a cleaner way like showing some text or dummy function in the status bar of the browser when the user hovers over the link and yet make the link do what the programmer intended?

Here&#39;s my code.


    &lt;ul id=&quot;sidebarmenu1&quot;&gt;
       // List that is converted into a menu... 
       &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot; id=&quot;loadHotel&quot; &gt; HOTEL &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
       &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot; id=&quot;loadCountry&quot;&gt; COUNTRY &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
       &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot; id=&quot;loadCity&quot;&gt; CITY &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;

    // The jQuery to load content into another div with Ajax
    var loadUrl = &quot;createHotel.php&quot;;
    $(&quot;#loadHotel&quot;).click(function() {
        $(&quot;#mainContent&quot;).html(ajax_load).load(loadUrl);
    }); 
    
    // ajax function to load hotel ---&gt; rooms page 
    
    var url_loadRooms = &quot;viewRooms.php&quot;;
    $(&quot;#createRooms&quot;).click(function() {
        $(&quot;#mainContent&quot;).html(ajax_load).load(url_loadRooms);
    });

What else can I use instead of `&quot;#&quot;` to make my code neat..?
 
   


Alternatives for using &quot;#&quot; in href attribute

There are different ways to show graphics in a page next to text.
I need to include a graphic/icon that indicates a new tab will be opened.

I know it&#39;s possible to do using at least these different methods:
- Unicode character from default fonts
- Unicode character from CSS loaded fonts
- Inline SVG
- Inline PNG

Please suggest a method to do this, and explain why or why not it&#39;s robust on different browsers and operating systems.




Most robust method for showing Icon next to text

I generate normal links like: `&lt;a href=&quot;/path/to/image&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/path/to/image&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;` in a web app.

When I click on the link, it displays the picture in a new page. If you want to save the picture, then you need to right click on it and select &quot;save as&quot;

I don&#39;t want this behaviour, I would like to have a download box popping out when I click on the link, is that possible just with html or javascript? How?

If not I guess I would have to write a download.php script and call it into the href with the file name as parameter...?

href image link download on click

In the 1990s, there was a fashion to put Javascript code directly into `&lt;a&gt;` href attributes, like this:

    &lt;a href=&quot;javascript:alert(&#39;Hello world!&#39;)&quot;&gt;Press me!&lt;/a&gt;

And then suddenly I stopped to see it. They were all replaced by things like:

    &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot; onclick=&quot;alert(&#39;Hello world!&#39;)&quot;&gt;Press me!&lt;/a&gt;

For a link whose sole purpose is to trigger Javascript code, and has no real `href` target, why is it encouraged to use the `onclick` property instead of the `href` property?

Why is it bad practice to use links with the javascript: &quot;protocol&quot;?

How do I test to see if links are external or internal? Please note:

 1. I cannot hard code the local domain.
 2. I cannot test for &quot;http&quot;. I could just as easily be linking to my own site with an http absolute link.
 3. I want to use jQuery / javascript, not css.

I suspect the answer lies somewhere in location.href, but the solution evades me.

Thanks!

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