Is it possible to make an HTML anchor tag not clickable linkable using CSS

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For example if I have this    lt a style    href  page html  gt page link lt  a gt   Is there anything I can use for the style attribute that will make it so the link isn t clickable and won t take me to page html   Or  is my only option to simply not wrap  page link  in an anchor tag   Edit  I want to state why I want to do this so that people may be able to provide better advice  I am trying to set up my application so that the developer can choose what type of navigation style they want   So  I have a list of links and one is always currently selected and all the others aren t  For the links that are not selected  I obviously want those to be normal clickable anchor tags  But for the selected link  some people prefer that the link remains clickable while others like to make it not clickable   Now I could easily just programmatically not wrap an anchor tags around the selected link  But I figure it will be more elegant if I can always wrap the selected link in something like    lt a id  current  href  link html  gt link lt  a gt   and then let the developer control the linking style through CSS

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lt a href  page html  onclick  return false  style  cursor default   gt page link lt  a gt

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It can be done in css and it is very simple  change the  a  to a  p   Your  page link  does not lead to somewhere anyway if you want to make it unclickable   When you tell your css to do a hover action on this specific  p  tell it this    for this example I have given the  p  the  example  ID    example     cursor default      Now your cursor will stay the same as it does all over the page

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The answer is    lt a href  page html  onclick  return false  gt page link lt  a gt

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Yes   It is possible using css   lt a class  disable-me  href  page html  gt page link lt  a gt    disable-me       pointer-events  none

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CSS was designed to affect presentation  not behaviour   You could use some JavaScript   document links 0  onclick   function event       event preventDefault

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That isn t too easy to do with CSS  as it s not a behavioral language  ie JavaScript   the only easy way would be to use a JavaScript OnClick Event on your anchor and to return it as false  this is probably the shortest code you could use for that    lt a href  page html  onclick  return false  gt page link lt  a gt

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Or purely HTML and CSS with no events    lt div style  z-index  1  position  absolute   gt       lt a style  visibility  hidden   gt Page link lt  a gt   lt  div gt   lt a href  page html  gt Page link lt  a gt

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You can use this css    inactiveLink      pointer-events  none     cursor  default      And then assign the class to your html code    lt a style    href  page html  class  inactiveLink  gt page link lt  a gt    It makes the link not clickeable and the cursor style an arrow  not a hand as the links have   or use this style in the html    lt a style  pointer-events  none  cursor  default   href  page html  gt page link lt  a gt    but I suggest the first approach

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A more un-obtrusive way  assuming you use jQuery    HTML    lt a id  my-link  href  page html  gt page link lt  a gt   Javascript       my-link   click function e        e preventDefault          The advantage of this is the clean separation between logic and presentation  If one day you decide that this link would do something else  you don t have to mess with the markup  just the JS

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