How to use JQuery with Master Pages?

Question

I can get simple examples to work fine as long as there\'s no master page involved. All I want to do is click a button and have it say \"hello world\" with the javascript in

Answer 1

When pages are rendered along with master pages, control id gets changed on page rendering so we can't refer them in jQuery like this #controlid. Instead we should try using input[id$=controlid]. If control is rendered as input control or if as anchor tag use a[id$=controlid] in jQuery.