Remove Link from Slider

Hello,

I want to remove hyper link from the slider. I want to use it as a image slider without any hyper link. The Slider shouldn’t be click-able.

I have gone through below code in home.php and tried to remove the tag… but still it doesn’t work.

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" data-iview:image="<?php echo leaf_get_post_image( null,null,true,null, 'slider' ); ?>">
							<span class="iview-caption caption3" data-x="15" data-y="212" data-transition="expandright"><h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2></span>
							<span class="iview-caption caption1" data-x="15" data-y="258" data-transition="expandleft"><?php echo '<p>' . wp_trim_words( get_the_excerpt(), 35, null ) . '</p>'; ?></span>
						</a>

into this:

<div data-iview:image="<?php echo leaf_get_post_image( null,null,true,null, 'slider' ); ?>">
							<span class="iview-caption caption3" data-x="15" data-y="212" data-transition="expandright"><h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2></span>
							<span class="iview-caption caption1" data-x="15" data-y="258" data-transition="expandleft"><?php echo '<p>' . wp_trim_words( get_the_excerpt(), 35, null ) . '</p>'; ?></span>
						</div>

Please suggests and help me.