fixAnchorPing

Written by Karl Hansen, installed 528 times.
Last update on Jan 20, 2006
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Clear the ping attribute on an HTML anchor

The HTML specification allows a ping attribute on an HTML anchor. When clicked, this sends information back to the specified web server without the user's knowledge. This script will replace the ping attribute's value with an empty string.

More info at http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#...




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Junk Blocker scriptwright
Posted Feb 20, 2007

Much simplified version:

(function() {

var tags = document.getElementsByTagName("a");

var numofAnchorTags = tags.length;

var x = 0;

while(x < numofAnchorTags) {

try {

if (tags[x].hasAttribute('ping')) tags[x].removeAttribute('ping');

}

catch(e) {}

x++;

}

})();