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HTML

<a href="#">no target</a>
<a href="#" target="blabla">no target</a>
<a href="#" target="pageContent">no target</a>

JavaScript

$('a:not([target]), a[target="pageContent"]').click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    pgTrans('start');
});