How to remove "href" with Jquery?

Question

<a id="a$id" onclick="check($id,1)" href="javascript:void(0)"  class="black">Qualify</a> 

After "href" is removed, is "Qualify" still clickable?

Answer 1

Your title question and your example are completely different. I'll start by answering the title question:

$("a").removeAttr("href"); 

And as far as not requiring an href, the generally accepted way of doing this is:

<a href"#" onclick="doWork(); return false;">link</a> 

The return false is necessary so that the href doesn't actually go anywhere.

Answer 2

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");