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Jquery remove certain link from page and/or remove text

HI, This page is dynamically created: http://www.magickitchen.com/menu/thanksgiving.html

Partway down the page it says Build your own Package or Add to your Order: and that links to /menu/thanksgiving/900000.html.

Can I use jquery to disable that link?

This second question I am quite sure can't be done, but I'll ask. I'd like the words Full Description below that to be removed, but I want all the other ones on the page to remain. Products may come and go, so we can't say take away the third child of...

I'll leave that to your brains. Thanks!
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Oh, that will work perfectly, thanks! I'll try it out on my test site. I'm just learning jquery, it's pretty amazing.
Ok, I added it before the </head> tag here:

https://dev2.magickitchen.com/menu/thanksgiving.html

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userid:  pepe
pass:    BobTheBuilder45!!

It's not working as yet, but I may have wrapped it incorrectly??
Hi, Again. OK, I made some changes. I rushed it yesterday and did something dumb. Now the link is gone, which is fantastic. But the words full description are not changing. I'll work with it, but if you have time to help, please see link above. Thanks.
Ok.. it runs in the fiddle if I take away the button. So that means something else is blocking it? Or some jquery runs before it that supercedes it? I'll try moving it up.
No.. I've moved it as high as I can go and still stay below the jquery load. I'm out of ideas for now. Please help if you can. Thanks.
Firefox is blocking me from your dev site.  You should be able to use the code I posted here at EE, but wrapped inside document ready:
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('a[href="thanksgiving/900000.html"]').each(function() {
    //remove link
    $(this).removeAttr('href');
    //find Full description
    if ($(this).find('i').text() === "Full description...") {
      $(this).find('i').text("Something else!")
    }
  });
});

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The code that removes the Full description text is dependent on the HTML structure being the same as your production website.  If you still can't get it working, please post the jQuery you're using, along with the HTML from your dev site for the segment in question
Sorry about that, I guess the boss changed the password again. Attached is the full page html.
thanksgiving.html
It should go just above the </head> tag.  Inside script tags and wrapped in document ready, like so:

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That's exactly what I had, and I have replaced it now by the </head> tag. Not working. Let me get you access. Are you not allowed using the user name and password above? Thanks.
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {
   //remove link
  $('a[href="thanksgiving/900000.html"]').each(function() {
    //remove link
    $(this).removeAttr('href');
    //find Full description
    if ($(this).find('i').text() === "Full description...") {
      $(this).find('i').text("Something else!")
    }
  });
  });
  </script>
</head>
I can't access the link because FF blocks it.  And I'm not comfortable with logging in to your site.
ok... I will see if I can show it to you some other way.  Maybe I can build a false category on the live site for a short time. Here is the html currently.thanksgiving-2.html
Bring up your dev page in a web browser.  Press F12 and go to the tab that shows the HTML.  Find the section with the links and "full description" text, and paste that here.  For an example, refer to the HTML section of the Fiddle Demo I posted earlier.  I copied that from your production site using F12 developer tools (I just found that section in the HTML, highlighted it and copied it)

If the jQuery that disables the link is working, then you have the code in the right place.  If it's not changing "Full description" it suggests that text is not in the same placement in the HTML as it is on your production site.
<div class="hidden-lg hidden-md">
<hr>
</div>
<div class="row mainCoursesRow">
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-4 col-sm-12 col-xs-12" style="margin-right:-5px;">
<div class="coursesImage">
<a>
<img src="/img/prod/thumbs/more-choices.jpg" alt="Build your own Package or Add to your Order:">
</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-5 col-md-6 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 vSmall" style="margin-right:-5px;">
<div class="coursesContents">
<span class="ItemTitle">
<a>Build your own Package or Add to your Order:</a>
</span>
<p>
<a>
<i class="hidden-print">Full description...</i>
</a>
</p>
<div class="spnIcons"> </div>
</div>
</div>

I'll check the live site.
Here's the live site. I don't see it...

<hr>
</div>
<div class="row mainCoursesRow">
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-4 col-sm-12 col-xs-12" style="margin-right:-5px;">
<div class="coursesImage">
<a href="thanksgiving/900000.html">
<img src="/img/prod/thumbs/more-choices.jpg" alt="Build your own Package or Add to your Order:">
</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-5 col-md-6 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 vSmall" style="margin-right:-5px;">
<div class="coursesContents">
<span class="ItemTitle">
<a href="thanksgiving/900000.html">Build your own Package or Add to your Order:</a>
</span>
<p>
<a href="thanksgiving/900000.html">
<i class="hidden-print">Full description...</i>
</a>
</p>
<div class="spnIcons"> </div>
</div>
</div>
So the problem is that your dev site doesn't have the href attribute on the link:

dev:
<a>Build your own Package or Add to your Order:</a>

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compared to production:
<a href="thanksgiving/900000.html">Build your own Package or Add to your Order:</a>

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That href attribute is what's being used to locate the "Full description" text in the original jQuery I posted.

If you don't want to add that href attribute back to the link, you can just use this jQuery to change the "Full description" text:

$(document).ready(function() {
	$('.hidden-print').each(function() {
		  //find Full description
		  if ($(this).text() === "Full description...") {
			$(this).text("Something else!")
		  }
	});
});

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Here is an updated Fiddle Demo
This is a great solution, exactly what I needed, thanks!