Remove links with JavaScript in browser

If you can include jquery, you can do it simply with

$('document').ready(function (){
    $('a').contents().unwrap();
});​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Here's some vanilla JS that does the trick. All it does is replace a tags with span's and copies over class and id attributes (if they exist).

var anchors = document.querySelectorAll("A");

for ( var i=0; i < anchors.length; i++ ) {
    var span = document.createElement("SPAN");
    if ( anchors[i].className ) {
        span.className = anchors[i].className;
    }

    if ( anchors[i].id ) {
        span.id = anchors[i].id;
    }

    span.innerHTML = anchors[i].innerHTML;

    anchors[i].parentNode.replaceChild(span, anchors[i]);
}

You can use removeAttribute:

var allImages = document.querySelectorAll('.imageLinks');

function removehyperlinks()(){  
    for (var i = 0; i < allImages.length; i++) {
    allImages[i].removeAttribute("href");
  }
}

removehyperlinks()()