[removed] changing the value of onclick with or without jQuery

Question

I\'d like to change the value of the onclick attribute on an anchor. I want to set it to a new string that contains JavaScript. (That string is provided to the

Answer 1

If you don't want to actually navigate to a new page you can also have your anchor somewhere on the page like this.

And then to assign your string of JavaScript to the the onclick of the anchor, put this somewhere else (i.e. the header, later in the body, whatever):

If you have all of this info on the server before sending out the page, then you could also simply place the JavaScript directly in the href attribute of the anchor like so:

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