Is it possible to hide the title from a link with CSS?

I have an anchor element with a title attribute. I want to hide the popup that appears when hovering over it in the browser window. In my case, it is not possible to do something like this,

$("a").attr("title", "");

Because of jQuery Mobile the title will reappear after certain events occur (basically everytime the anchor element gets redrawn). So I hope to hide the title via CSS.

Something like:

a[title] {
    display : none;
}

doesn't work, since it hides the entire anchor element. I want to hide the title only. Is this even possible? The popup shouldn't display.