How to interrupt a click on a link in Angular?

Question

Angular

There is a link: It is
<a href="http://">Link</a>
necessary that when the link is clicked, a certain handler is executed. But the link didn't open. But at the same time, you need to keep the ability to navigate through it if the user opens the link in a new tab, or if he has disabled JS.
In jQuery it was done like this:

$('a').click(function() {
    // code
    return false;
});

But how to do this using angular?

Answer 1

<a href="http://" ng-click="handleClick($event)"></a>

$scope.handleClick = function($event) {
  $event.preventDefault();
}