title: can I use document.getElementById(someid).onclick for tag a
body: <p>I am trying to call a javascript function onclick. I have written something like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
      function readPage(){
          alert("Hello");
      }
  
      document.getElementById('read').onclick=readPage;
  &lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;a id="read" href=""&gt;read&lt;/a&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to call readPage function but its not working?if I write onclick inside  tag it works but the way I have written above is not working. why?</p>