Question

This is a weird question. We have some production links down on our intranet. Some rouge javascript is returning a “false” on all links on our intranet homepage.

We don’t have access to the source to re-build the control and fix this javascript.

So as a temporary band-aid I want to move all the “onClick” events on the links using jquery

The links right now are like this:

<a href="https://www.mysite.com/" onclick="AddHit('Header: mysite.com', 'http://www.mysite.com'); return false;" title="Mysite Home">www.Mysite.com</a>

I want to write some jquery to get ride of the “onclick=’AddHit…” code.

Answer 1

You can try this:

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

Edit Updating answer based on comments and jquery Docs:

Note: Removing an inline onclick event handler using .removeAttr() doesn’t achieve the desired effect in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8. To avoid potential problems, use .prop() instead

Best way to do this:

$("a").prop("onclick", null);