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

In case if some one wants to access a label, here is the syntax

$('[id$=lbl]').text('Hello');

where lbl is the label id and the text to display in the label is 'Hello'