Possible to replicate jQuery's separation of JS events from inline attributes in ASP.NET AJAX?

Question

Can something like this, borrowed from jQuery, be done without jQuery and with ASP.NET AJAX only?

<a href="nojslink.html" class="clickMe">Click Me</a>

And then in an external JS file:

$('a.clickMe').click(function(){  
   alert('Thanks for clicking');  
});

Answer 1

Something along the lines of

$addHandler($get(elementName),'eventname',function handler());

So, closer to the example:

$addHandler($get(elementName),'click',function() {alert('Thanks for clicking')});

As far as I know, ASP.NET Ajax doesn't support CSS selectors like jquery, so you would have to do that yourself.