title: completely removing href links with jquery
body: <p>I have built a jquery slider for my website. There are 3 slides in total and each slide contains 30-40 images linking through to a separate page.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to completely remove the href links on the slides that are not active, and then add them in again when the slide is active. I have tried a few methods such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('a').click(function(e){
  e.preventDefault();
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this only prevents the link clicking through and doesn't actually remove it.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions on what i could do?</p>
  
  <p>The reason i would like to do this is because Google doesn't like more than 100 internal links on a page and i have nearly double that!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks, Dan</p>