jQuery hyperlinks - href value?

$('a').click(function (event) 
{ 
     event.preventDefault(); 
     //here you can also do all sort of things 
});

Then you can put in every href whatever you want and jQuery will trigger the preventDefault() method and you will not be redirected to that place.

Those "anchors" that exist solely to provide a click event, but do not actually link to other content, should really be button elements because that's what they really are.

It can be styled like so:

<button style="border:none; background:transparent; cursor: pointer;">Click me</button>

And of course click events can be attached to buttons without worry of the browser jumping to the top, and without adding extraneous javascript such as onclick="return false;" or event.preventDefault() .

You should really put a real link in there. I don't want to sound like a pedant, but that's a fairly bad habit to get into. JQuery and Ajax should always be the last thing you implement. If you have a link that goes no-where, you're not doing it right.

I'm not busting your balls, I mean that with all the best intention.

Why use a <a href>? I solve it like this:

<span class='a'>fake link</span>

And style it with:

.a {text-decoration:underline; cursor:pointer;}

You can easily access it with jQuery:

$(".a").click();

Add return false to the end of your click handler, this prevents the browser default handler occurring which attempts to redirect the page:

$('a').click(function() {
// do stuff
return false;
});

using jquery, you may want to get only to those with a '#'

$('a[href=#]').click(function(){return false;});

if you use the newest jquery (1.3.x), there's no need to bind it again when the page changes:

$('a[href=#]').live('click', function(){return false;});

you shoud use <a href="javascript:void(0)" ></a> instead of <a href="#" ></a>