SO fiddle

Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions

by Nick Craver

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.4/themes/overcast/jquery-ui.css">
<table >
  <tr>
      <td><a href="/link.html" onclick="javascript:aFunction()">some text</a></td>
      <td><a href="/anotherlink.html">some more text</a></td>           
  </tr>
</table>

CSS

td { border: solid 1px #ddd; padding: 5px; }

JavaScript

$("table a").replaceWith(function() {
    return this.innerHTML;
});