Putting the onclick within the href would offend those who believe strongly in separation of content from behavior/action. The argument is that your html content should remain focused solely on content, not on presentation or behavior.
The typical path these days is to use a javascript library (eg. jquery) and create an event handler using that library. It would look something like:
$('a').click( function(e) {e.preventDefault(); /*your_code_here;*/ return false; } );
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