onClick for text link

Hi,

I am trying to play a sound using javascript when the viewer clicks a link.

<a href="playBang();" onClick="playBang();">bang</a>

I have the playBang(); function working fine, if I run it as javascript:playBang(); in the browser url bar, it works fine.

I have tried putting the js in both (and separately) the href and onClick of the link.
href="..." gets reformatted to href="javascript:void(0)" and onclick="..." is reformated to onclick.
I’ve tried over an hour to get this to work and have searched the internet, am I doing something wrong? Thank you!

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