Make a weblink (a href) not clickable

Sometimes you have a need to prohibit a visitor from clicking on a link on your site. For example if you are including content from another soruce via Atom or RSS and they contain links.

The best way is of course to remove the link tag (<a href="" >) from the content. But if this is not possible an alternate solution can be to cover it with a transparent div placed on top of the content using the z-index.