Change button text jquery mobile

Question

I\'m using the new jquery mobile 1.0 alpha 1 release to build a mobile app and I need to be able to toggle the text of a button. Toggling the text works fine, but as soon a

Answer 1

I read through this and various options online and think I may have a simpler solution. It definitely works for links you are turning into a button with the data-role="button" attribute.

Simply put the text of the button in a separate span, and then change the contents of the span in your JavaScript.

e.g.

Mark Old

Then a simple

$('#oldBtnText').html("Old");

Will do the job. It also shouldn't be a problem if jQuery changes their structure.