Question

I have some HTML with an onclick attribute. I want to override that attribute using jQuery. Is there any way to remove the click handler using jQuery? Using unbind doesn’t work.

Answer 1

Try the .removeAttr() function:

$(function() {
    $('a').removeAttr('onclick');
});

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jsfiddle demo.

Once you’ve got rid of the onclick attribute you could attach your own click handler.