Dead Anchor links in HTML & Rails

gistfile1.txt

using a <a href> tag ...

<a href="#" id="chooseLink">-tagName</a>

using link_to_function (when calling a javascript function instead of link) ...

<%= link_to_function "tagName", "javascript function", id: "chooseLink %>

using link_to ( changing a link_to to a dead link and then using jQuery to add functionality to id ...

<%= link_to "Guitars", {action: 'new', instrument: 'guitar'}, href: '#' %>
<%= link_to "Custom Instruments", {action: 'new', instrument: 'custom'},{href: '#', :id => "storeClick" } %>
- or - 
if you have no link options for where to go to preserve ...
<%= link_to 'Save in Wishlist',{},  :class => "test" %>



if you put the href: '#" in the first block - the rails helper will put the '#' on the url string created
rails thinks href: is a params symbol

All HTML/CSS related items go in the 2nd block! on link_to 


If you are using dead link and wanting a jQuery, JS function and you do not want the page to reset ...
add return false; 
to the end of the jQuery / Javascript function