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HTML

<a id="link1" onclick="linkclick(event)"> link 1 </a>
<a id="link2"> link 2 </a> <!-- without inline onclick handler --

JavaScript

let elem = document.getElementById('link2');
elem.addEventListener('click', linkclick, false);

// test for #link2 - dynamically created eventlistener
alert(elem.onclick); // null
alert(elem.hasAttribute('onclick')); // false
alert(elem.click); // function click(){[native code]} // btw, what's this?

function linkclick(){
//...some code
}