Cathi,

I can see now why I struggled without finding the answer. This would have taken me a long time to discover this on my own. Thanks for your help.

I've converted the technique to C# and included the following for anyone else who needs it in C#

private void grdPayments_ItemCreated(object sender, System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridItemEventArgs e)
		{
	Button myButton=(Button)e.Item.Cells[0].FindControl("btnDelete");
	if (myButton != null)
	{
		myButton.Attributes.Add("onclick","alert('hello')");
	}
}

I also changed the hyperlink to a button object.

Thanks again for increasing my understanding just a little bit more.