How to remove anchor of current menu item in navbar?

Question

Michelle is right. You could create your own walker and override the default method that creates the anchor.

Or you can hack it by doing this:

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

    var current =  $("#nav_menu_id").find(".current-menu-item");
    $(current).html( $(current).find("a").html() );

});

Where “nav_menu_id” is the id of your menu you wish to accomplish this on.

Personally, I would invest the time in the walker.