Disable all target="_blank" links on page

Question

I'm building content for a site that is displayed through an iframe in a PhoneGap mobile app. The content is pulled from a CMS that also serves the content for the main website so it has a mix of internal and target="_blank" links. Handling target="_blank" links is proving problematic in PhoneGap so I want to disable them in the app website without touching the content because it's also used on the main website. What I need is jQuery that runs on page load, finds all links with target="_blank" attribute and makes links normal text. Something like this (How to disable all links before load jQuery?) disables all links but I only want to disable links that have target="_blank" attribute, and I want to hide the fact that the words were links in the first place: ``` var links = document.links; for (var i = 0, length = links.length; i < length; i++) { links[i].onclick = function(e) { e = e || window.event; e.preventDefault(); } } ``` So I don't want to simply preventDefault() on link click…

Accepted Answer

```
$('a[target="_blank"]').each(function(){
   $(this).removeAttr('href');
});
```

Or if you want to completely remove `a` tags

```
$('a[target="_blank"]').each(function(){
   $(this).replaceWith($(this).text());
});
```

http://jsfiddle.net/mohammadAdil/kZqFD/

Disable all target="_blank" links on page

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