diff --git a/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/features-disabled-link-pointer-events_2018-02-19-16-13.json b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/features-disabled-link-pointer-events_2018-02-19-16-13.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..17c7cacac5fb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/features-disabled-link-pointer-events_2018-02-19-16-13.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "changes": [{
+    "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+    "comment": "Only apply 'pointer-events: none' to disabled Link components if there is an href ",
+    "type": "patch"
+  }],
+  "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+  "email": "cohoov@microsoft.com"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Link/Link.styles.ts b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Link/Link.styles.ts
index 2fcca8da7bc8f..30464420d5d68 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Link/Link.styles.ts
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Link/Link.styles.ts
@@ -43,8 +43,14 @@ export const getStyles = (props: ILinkStyleProps): ILinkStyles => {
         'is-disabled',
         {
           color: semanticColors.disabledText,
-          cursor: 'default',
-          pointerEvents: 'none'
+          cursor: 'default'
+        },
+        {
+          selectors: {
+            '&:link, &:visited': {
+              pointerEvents: 'none'
+            }
+          }
         }
       ],
       !isDisabled && {
diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Link/__snapshots__/Link.test.tsx.snap b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Link/__snapshots__/Link.test.tsx.snap
index ab56a5c038c8a..22b0992c34d45 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Link/__snapshots__/Link.test.tsx.snap
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/Link/__snapshots__/Link.test.tsx.snap
@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@ exports[`Link renders disabled Link correctly 1`] = `
         color: #a6a6a6;
         cursor: default;
         outline: transparent;
-        pointer-events: none;
         position: relative;
         text-decoration: none;
       }
@@ -162,6 +161,9 @@ exports[`Link renders disabled Link correctly 1`] = `
         top: 1px;
         z-index: 1;
       }
+      &:link, &:visited {
+        pointer-events: none;
+      }
   href="#"
   onClick={[Function]}
   target={undefined}
@@ -193,7 +195,6 @@ exports[`Link renders disabled Link with no href as a button correctly 1`] = `
         padding-left: 0px;
         padding-right: 0px;
         padding-top: 0px;
-        pointer-events: none;
         position: relative;
         text-align: left;
         text-overflow: inherit;
@@ -215,6 +216,9 @@ exports[`Link renders disabled Link with no href as a button correctly 1`] = `
       @media screen and (-ms-high-contrast: active){& {
         color: Highlight;
       }
+      &:link, &:visited {
+        pointer-events: none;
+      }
   disabled={true}
   onClick={[Function]}
 >