prioritize ngclick over nghref in <a> elements

Question

tl;dr: How can I force angular to only execute the ngclick directive in an <a> element without emptying/removing the href?

My site has some custom behavior on some elements (modal opens, location bar updates, etc.) but for SEO indexing I also need it to be an <a> element with an href attribute containing a valid link.

Such as:

<a href="/{{item.url}}" ng-click="doCustomStuff(item)">some link</a>

However, angular also executes the href and the routing makes my custom ng-click logic useless.

Is there a way to invert this behavior?

Answer 1

You should pass $event parameter to onclick function and execute e.preventDefault() method;

<a ng-click="clickHandler($event)" href="/home" >home</a>

and in controller:

$scope.clickHandler = function(e){
   e.preventDefault();
}

Example:

http://plnkr.co/edit/sKHST3GkRENtxptxr0mK?p=preview