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

For some reason I am not having an 'ui-btn-text' classed span the first time I want to change the button text. So I workaround it like this:

var button = $("#consumed");
var innerTextSpan = button.find(".ui-btn-text");

// not initialized - just change label
if (innerTextSpan.size() == 0) {
    button.text(label);

// already initialized - find innerTextSpan and change its label    
} else {
    innerTextSpan.text(label);
}