Khalil Ghâñmî

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Khalil Ghâñmî
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How to Disable Anchor Tag using HTML, CSS or JavaScript ?

23 August 2022

In various situations ,we need to disable a anchor tags in a webpage to prevent visitor by clicking the anchor tag  and going to that link  .There are several ways to Block or Disabled the anchor tag .In this article I will show you 3 Simple Methods of ‘How to Disable Anchor Tag‘ as well as make a compare between  three methods

1. Disable Anchor Tag using Simple HTML

In this Method,we used a simple HTML attribute in a anchor tag to Disabled the click i.e.  disabled=’disabled’
This adds a instruction to the anchor tag to prevent the clicking of the link

e.g.

<html>
<head>
<title>Disable Anchor Tag by Simple HTML</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href='http://techniblogic.com' disabled='disabled'>Click Here</a>
</body>
</html>

It not supported by all the browsers but only supported by old browsers (eg Internet Explorer )

2. Disable Anchor Tag using CSS

In this Method , we used a Simple CSS  style ‘pointer-events‘ is given none .Now the Anchor link doesn’t click able but the mobile cursor will change as there is a link , to prevent it we have to set  ‘cursor: default’ .

e.g.

<html>
<head>
<title>Disable Anchor Tag using CSS</title>
<style>
.not-active {
 pointer-events: none;
 cursor: default;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://techniblogic.com" class="not-active">Link</a>
</body>
</html>

It is Supported by many browsers as Shown below :

via caniuse.com

It is widely use to disable a anchor tag in a small and simple line of Code but as shown in the above figure it doesn’t supported by very old browsers  apart from it this is a very widely usable method

3. Disable Anchor Tag using JavaScript

In this Method, we use a JavaScript event on the anchor tag i.e. ‘onClick’ . We add this event to the anchor tag which we want to Disabled And add ‘return false’ value to the onClick event in a anchor tag

e.g.

<html>
<head>
<title>Disable Anchor Tag using JavaScript</title>
</head>
<body>
<a onclick="return false" href="http://techniblogic.com/" />Techniblogic</a>
</body>
</html>

You may prefer one you are comfortable with using.

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