Unable to access javascript from JQuery Dialog

Hi,

I am using a JQuery dialog to show a JQuery datatable in the dialog.
In the JQuery datable, I have a anchor tag for which onclick I call a Javascript function. The syntax is as follows:

 <a href="javascript:callFunction()"/> 

But the function is not getting called though the .js file is loaded.

I tried keeping function in html itself but no luck.

Could someone let me know if JQuery dialog restricts access to .js file?

Thanks,
Hareesh