onclick in anchor tag

How come my onclick isn't working below?

	function complete(data) 
	{		
		var bldRow=$('#Iblog').DataTable();
		

		for(var i =0; i < data.d.results.length; i++) 
		{		
					   //var rowNode = 
		    bldRow.row.add([ data.d.results[i].Created, "<a href='#' onclick='openModal();return false;'>"+data.d.results[i].Title+"</a>", data.d.results[i].NumCommentsId]).draw();				   
		}

		//$('#myBlogData').append(bldRow);
	 }

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IsaacSharePoint Client Side DeveloperAsked:
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David H.H.LeeCommented:
Can i see your openModal() function?
IsaacSharePoint Client Side DeveloperAuthor Commented:
Nothing special...just an alert()
	 function openModal() {
alert("HELLO WORLD");
	 }

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David H.H.LeeCommented:
Do you get the result in the looping recordset below?

eg:
data.d.results[i].Created
data.d.results[i].Title
data.d.results[i].NumCommentsId]

var v1,v2,v3, rv2;

for(var i =0; i < data.d.results.length; i++) 
		{	
           v1=data.d.results[i].Created;
           v2=data.d.results[i].Title;
           v3=data.d.results[i].NumCommentsId;

           //alert(v1);  
           //alert(v2);  
           //alert(v3);
  
           rv2= "<a href='#' onclick='openModal();return false;'>"+v2+"</a>";

          bldRow.row.add([v1,rv2,v3]).draw();				   
}

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If you can't get the result above, then you may replace this line:
 rv2= "&lt;a href='#' onclick='openModal();return false;'&gt;"+v2+"&lt;/a&gt;";

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Vimal DMSenior Software EngineerCommented:
Hi,

I guess it might be the single quotes or double quotes which you have used to populate the tag link in the script.
IsaacSharePoint Client Side DeveloperAuthor Commented:
Maybe this will help.  Here is the whole javascript and html code in different files

$(document).ready(function(){
		$('#blog').DataTable();

		getListItems('http://www.mysite.com','Posts','complete', 'failure','timeout');
	});


function getListItems(url, listname, complete, failure, timeout) {

    // Executing our items via an ajax request
    $.ajax({
        url: url + "/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('" + listname + "')/items?select=Created,Title,NumCommentsId",
        method: "GET",
        headers: { "Accept": "application/json; odata=verbose" },
		timeout: 2000,
		dataType:"json",
        success: function (data) {
            complete(data); // Returns JSON collection of the results
        },
        error: function (xhr,status,error) {
            console.log(status);
        }
    });
	
	function complete(data) 
	{		
		var bldRow=$('#Iblog').DataTable();
		

		for(var i =0; i < data.d.results.length; i++) 
		{		
					   //var rowNode = 
		    bldRow.row.add([ data.d.results[i].Created, "<a href='#' onclick='openModal();return false;'>"+data.d.results[i].Title+"</a>", data.d.results[i].NumCommentsId]).draw();				   
		}

		//$('#myBlogData').append(bldRow);
	 }
	 
	 function openModal() {
		alert("open modal");
	 }
	function failure(data) {
	 alert("Operation failed.");
	 }

}

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HTML Code
<html>
<head>
	<title></title>
<style>
table.dataTable {
    width:auto !important;
}
</style>

</head>
<body>

<table id="Iblog" class="display nowrap dataTable dtr-inline" cellspacing="0">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th>Date</th>
			<th>Title</th>
			<th># of Comments</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<!-- <tfoot>
		<tr>
			<th>Date</th>
			<th>Title</th>
			<th># of Comments</th>
			<th>Category</th>
		</tr> 
	-->
	</tfoot>
	<tbody id="myBlogData">

	</tbody>
</table>

</body>

</html>

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hieloCommented:
try moving line 46 (the closing brace) to line 24 so that openModal() is defined globally.  The way you have it now, openModal() is defined within function getListItems(){...}, but the onclick handler is looking for a global definition of openModal:
$(document).ready(function(){
		$('#blog').DataTable();

		getListItems('http://www.mysite.com','Posts','complete', 'failure','timeout');
	});


function getListItems(url, listname, complete, failure, timeout) {

    // Executing our items via an ajax request
    $.ajax({
        url: url + "/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('" + listname + "')/items?select=Created,Title,NumCommentsId",
        method: "GET",
        headers: { "Accept": "application/json; odata=verbose" },
		timeout: 2000,
		dataType:"json",
        success: function (data) {
            complete(data); // Returns JSON collection of the results
        },
        error: function (xhr,status,error) {
            console.log(status);
        }
    });
}	
	function complete(data) 
	{		
		var bldRow=$('#Iblog').DataTable();
		

		for(var i =0; i < data.d.results.length; i++) 
		{		
					   //var rowNode = 
		    bldRow.row.add([ data.d.results[i].Created, "<a href='#' onclick='openModal();return false;'>"+data.d.results[i].Title+"</a>", data.d.results[i].NumCommentsId]).draw();				   
		}

		//$('#myBlogData').append(bldRow);
	 }
	 
	 function openModal() {
		alert("open modal");
	 }
	function failure(data) {
	 alert("Operation failed.");
	 }

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IsaacSharePoint Client Side DeveloperAuthor Commented:
Good Catch!  Thanks!
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