JQuery :: Anchor Tag OnClick With A Parameter?

I am trying to call an ajax function from the onclick event of an anchor tag. Currently I reference the function like this. I would have liked to bind the function to the anchor tag but did not know how to do that when I need to pass in a parameter?

<a href="#" onClick="getCredentialFromId(${link.id})">${link.name}</a>

link.id and link.name are rendered on the serverside so when the page is rendered it looks like this:

<a onclick="getCredentialFromId(35)" href="#">MySQL</a>

my function looks like this:

function getCredentialFromId(cred_id) {
$.post('link.htm?linkCredentials',{cred_id: cred_id},function(response) {
try {

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