How to make an already set url/link go no where

HTML & CSS
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I have a particular link placed on various websites of mine that I do not want active anymore. I do not want to go search page by page/site by site to find the url and change the href to #. Is there another way I can do it? Is there a code I can place on the page I don’t want active to make the page appear blank without deleting the contents?

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If I clicked on a link and it either went nowhere (changing the href to #) or it went to a blank page, I would not be very happy.

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Hi there menalpoly,

this CSS example makes the link neither look like nor behave like a link…

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
<head>

<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,height=device-height,initial-scale=1">

<title>de-linking a link</title>

<!--<link rel="stylesheet" href="screen.css" media="screen">-->

<style media="screen">
body {
    background-color: #f0f0f0;
    font: 1em/150% verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
 }

a[href="http://www.example.com"] {
    position: relative;
    z-index: -1;
    color: #000;
    text-decoration: none;
 }
</style>

</head>
<body> 

 <a href="http://www.example.com">example.com</a>

</body>
</html>

coothead

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If you already have the site on your computer, many text editors will do a search for the entire site for the link. Then you can do a replace, individually or globally, of the link, changing it to “#” or removing the a href entirely. Then you would upload the changed pages.

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Why not go to the sites and remove the links individually?
This being a topic for backlinks and Google, too, it is recommended you remove as many unwanted links yourself as you can.

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