echo("<HTMLstuff>"); not working?

[Shinori]

Harrow fellow campaigners,

no idea what is going wrong here.
Maybe anybody has a solution:

Assume $logged_in being true.
check_account_status() not firing.
Also tried to change the attribute to onclick, onmousedown etc.

The HTML (.php):
 

<div id="wrapper-secondnav" class="">
	<ul id="secondnav">
		<li><a target="_blank" href="">Stuff</a></li>
		<li><a href="">Things</a></li>
		<li><a target="_blank" href="">Somestuff</a></li>
		<li><a href="">Anything</a></li>
		<?php
			if ($logged_in != true)
			{
				echo('<li><a id="register">Nooo</a></li>');
			}
			else
			{
				echo('<li><a id="register" onload="check_account_status();">Yay</a></li>');	
			}
		?>
	</ul>
</div>

And then there is the function in JS:

function check_account_status()
{
    alert("I like cookies");
}

Thank you very much!

Edited October 25, 2017 by Shinori

[justsomeguy]

Check your browser's developer console for Javascript error messages.  I don't know if anchor elements even have a load event, but they might.