SP 2007 - Make picture library thumbnail unclickable

Question

SP 2007 / Moss: I have a picture library where I want to show the thumbnail in the list view but make it unclickable. Right now when I click on it, it goes to the display form.

When I go into the picture library settings, there isn't a thumbnail column to edit. I can't even see it in the Picture content type.

Could / Should I use CSS, jQuery or JavaScript to make the link unclickable?

Is there another way without resorting to code?

Answer 1

No 2007 handy but depending on your browser coverage you can easily do that with CSS:

.ms-vb-icon a { 
    pointer-events: none
}

.ms-vb-icon is a sample selector from icons in document libraries, you need to identify how to target the column that contains the link with the thumbnail using your Web Developer Tools/Inspector.

https://jsfiddle.net/dmhLc3rx/

EDIT: jquery alternative

$(".ms-vb2 a").on("click", function(e) { 
    e.stopPropagation(); // this stops other click events from firing
    return false; // this stops the browser from following the href attribute
});