Calling Javascript in c# for webpart

[cs2007]

Hi,
My question on custom webpart creation in c#.
One quick question, can you please tell me the syntax or step to call the java script from Output.write(<a href=.....)
SCENARIO: click here should act as a link. And the link should invoke javascript.

for eg:
output.Write("< a href="#"" onclick="javasc ript:validateSu bmit();" ">" Click here "</a>");

Here Im getting following errors on compilation
1. "Preprocessor directives must appear as the first non-whitespace character on a line"
2. ; expected
3. ) expected

Hope the syntax is wrong....

Javascript is written as
output.Write ("<script>funct ion validateSubmit( ){alert ('Hi!, Javascript Invoked');}</script>");

Please help me out.

Very thanks in advance