EventCallback handling not working as intended

The premise

I'm working on a Blazor project with VS Community 17.14.25.

I'm trying to tie a Pagination Bar to a table: upon clicking a button on this Bar, the table should display the corresponding page; behind the scenes, it's getting a new segment of entries via pagination (I'm positive the APIs are not the problem).

What isn't working

Clicking on a Bar element does nothing. The first PaginationBar.razor function is seemingly triggered, but to no eventual success.

I've tried changing signatures, forcing a StateHasChanged() and clean rebuilds, but nothing did the trick.

The code

Here's a sample PaginationBar.razor button:

<li class="page-item" @onclick:preventDefault><a class="page-link" @onclick="() => UpdateCurrentPage(CurrentPage + 1)"><i class="bi bi-caret-right-fill"></i></a></li>

Here's the @code section of PaginationBar.razor:

@code {    [Parameter]    public int CurrentPage { get; set; }    [Parameter]    public int TotalPages { get; set; }    [Parameter]    public EventCallback<int> OnCurrentPageUpdated { get; set; }    private async Task UpdateCurrentPage(int newPage)    {        // Validation via HTML        await OnCurrentPageUpdated.InvokeAsync(newPage);    }}

Here's how I included PaginationBar.razor in Index:

<PaginationBar     CurrentPage="@CompanyQueryResult.PageNumber"    TotalPages="@CompanyQueryResult.TotalPages"    OnCurrentPageUpdated="UpdateCurrentPage"></PaginationBar>

And here's how I'm handling the EventCallback on the Index.Razor component:

public async Task UpdateCurrentPage(int newPage){    Filters.PageNumber = newPage;    CompanyQueryResult = await _service.GetCompaniesAsync(Filters);    StateHasChanged();}