Is there a way to add an onclick event to an ASP.NET Label server control?

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Published on 2008-10-08T01:45:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 22:03 UTC
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I wanted to do something like this:

<asp:Label ID="lblMyLabel" onclick="lblMyLabel_Click" runat="server">My Label</asp:Label>

I know that in Javascript I can do:

<span onclick="foo();">My Label</span>

So I'm wondering why I can't do that with a Label object.

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