remove href tags from links

[drsanupmoideen]

Hello Everybody, For my site, I would like to remove the href tags from all links created by users. So i added the following code to the header session of my site.

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$("a").filter(function() {
return this.hostname && this.hostname !== location.hostname;
}).addClass('external').attr("target", "_blank").removeAttr('href');
});
</script>

Its working fine, except that, it also removes the links to my subdomains. Can anybody please help me? I just want to remove the href tag only from contents inside a particular div "pagebody".

Thankyou all

[azoomer]

If the particular div you want to target has the id="pagebody" you could do something like this

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$("#pagebody a").filter(function() {
return this.hostname && this.hostname !== location.hostname;
}).addClass('external').attr("target", "_blank").removeAttr('href');
});
</script>

[drsanupmoideen]

Thank you azoomer, it worked.

[drsanupmoideen]

Is it possible to add some exclusions to this? Just like, if the link url == googel.co/ wikipedia.com etc, dont strip the href tags?