How to block jquery on an element
<p>I work with a rather complicated web UI that includes a lot of javascript, much of it implemented using jquery. It's my job to override the default javascript and to attempt to make customers happy with minor customizations here and there.</p>

<p>Sometimes there are bits of javascript that I know are in the UI, and which I need to override, but it can take me a long time to track them down. Once I've tracked them down, I haven't yet come up with a good way of blocking the default jquery events might be set up for the selection.</p>

<p>Is there an easy way to use jquery to make a selection and then define my own actions for it, or to block jquery on the selection completely?</p>

<p>For example, the default UI <strong>seems</strong> to define an onclick event for all links, which is preventing me from doing the seemingly simple task of adding target="_blank" to a link. I say "<strong>seems</strong>" because I haven't been able to find the javascript that is doing this, but I need to so that I can make the minor customization.</p>
