href overrides ng-click in Angular.js

You can simply prevent the default behavior of the click event directly in your template.

<a href="#" ng-click="$event.preventDefault();logout()" />

Per the angular documentation,

Directives like ngClick and ngFocus expose a $event object within the scope of that expression.

This example from the angular documentation site just does href without even assigning it to an empty string:

[<a href ng-click="colors.splice($index, 1)">X</a>]

http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:select

Here is another solution :

<a href="" ng-click="logout()">Sign out</a>

i.e. Just remove the # from the href attribute

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