JQuery :: Passing Params To Function From HTML Code

I want to do something like below with jQuery
<a id="nextId" href="javascript:doSomething('[URL]')>NextPage</a>
<script>
function doSomething(link){
//process the response
}
</script>

Right now my code block with jQuery looks like this :
<a id="nextId" href="javascript:doSomething('[URL]')>NextPage</a>
<script>
function doSomething(link){
$("#nextId").click(function() { $('div.galleryDiv').html("loading....").load(link); })
}
</script>

The problem with the above code is that I have to click twice to invoke the link - obviously, one for Javascript and the other jQuery 'click' function. I am new to jQuery, - invoking jQuery 'click', from HTML code, by passing dynamically generated 'link' as param.