Javascript pass variable in href onclick request

Question

I know this is really basic javascript but for some reason, I can't seem to get my link's onclick function to work when passing a parameter.

I have tried escaping the quotes, adding different types of quotes and adding the raw variable as a string.

I have it working with the below but it says that "XYZ is undefined"

function renderLink(value, meta, record)
        {
            var type = record.data['name']; //value is XYZ  


            return '<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="getReport('+type+'); return false;"></a>';
        }

function getReport(type){

    alert(type);
}

Answer 1

return '<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="getReport('+type+'); return false;"></a>';

You need to escape the string:

return '<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="getReport(\''+type+'\'); return false;"></a>';