Add onclick event to div in js

Question

I'm trying to add a onclick event to a tag, but it isn't working. Can anyone tell me the correct way to add an onclick to this tag in js?

  var cell = result.appendChild(document.createElement('abbr'));
  cell.title = "cell number 1";
  cell.className = 'chart-cell-type'; 
  cell.addEventListener='onclick',(alert("clicked!"));  //broken                                                      

Answer 1

As Alexis points out, your syntax is wrong. You want something like:

cell.addEventListener("click", function() {alert("clicked");})