how to eliminate images as clickable links

Hello, I'm having issues with my slider because it showing images as clickable links and i want to disable it. I have tried a couple of thing but nothing works, can someone guide me in the right direction. Thanks

<li class="slide">
<?php
if (has_post_thumbnail()) {
$img = get_the_post_thumbnail($page->ID, 'slide', array( 'title' => trim(strip_tags( $attachment->post_title )) ) );
} else {
$img = '<img src="'.CHILD_URL.'/images/noimage940x350.png" alt="" title="'.$post_title.'" />';
}
echo '<a href="'.get_permalink().'" title="'.the_title_attribute('echo=0').'">'.$img.'</a>';
$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
if (strlen($excerpt) > 120) {
$excerpt = substr($excerpt,0,strpos($excerpt,' ',120)); }
$excerpt = $excerpt.' ...';
if (!empty($options['display']['captions'])) { echo '<div class="flex-caption"><div class="container"><h4>'. get_the_title() . '</h4><p>' . $excerpt .'</p></div></div>'; }
?>
</l

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echo '<a href="'.get_permalink().'" title="'.the_title_attribute('echo=0').'">'.$img.'</a>';

Code (markup):

Change to:

echo $img;

Code (markup):

 

I cant believe it was that easy, thank you very much it worked.

 

The reason why it's so simple is because a link is <a href="mylink.php"></a>

Anything you wrap inside the anchor link is clickable.