jQuery - disable and enable an anchor tag based on condition

Question

On page load, I am checking to see if a person is registered. If he is then, I will enable a link otherwise disable the link.

I tried the following , but it doesnt work.

Answer 1

use event.preventDefault to prevent anchor tag to work.

anchor tag doesn't disable on adding attribute disabled

var status = $('#status').text(); // get text value if it's is span/div/p etc
if (status == 'Registered') {
    $('#addlink').click(function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();
    });
}