Reputation: 13773

How to change the text of a button in jQuery?

How do you change the text value of a button in jQuery? Currently, my button has 'Add' as its text value, and upon being clicked I want it to change to 'Save'. I have tried this method below, but so far without success:

$("#btnAddProfile").attr('value', 'Save');

Upvotes: 618

Answers (20)

Sudheer Kopparapu

Reputation: 49

$(document).ready(function(){
    $(":button").click(function(){
        $("p").toggle();

    if (this.value=="Add") this.value = "Save";
    else this.value = "Add";

  });
});

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<input type='button' value='Add' id='btnAddProfile'>

<p>This is a paragraph with little content.</p>
<p>This is another small paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 4

PurplePier

Reputation: 369

You can use something like this:

$('#your-button').text('New Value');

You can also add extra properties like this:

$(this).text('New Value').attr('disabled', true).addClass('bt-hud').unbind('click');

Upvotes: 26

i_emmanuel

Reputation: 519

$("#btnAddProfile").text("Save");

Upvotes: 14

Rajesh M. Kanojia

Reputation: 57

    $( "#btnAddProfile" ).on( "click",function(event){
    $( event.target ).html( "Save" );
});

Upvotes: -1

user1464277

Reputation: 231

You need to do .button("refresh")

HTML :

<button id='btnviewdetails' type='button'>SET</button>

JS :

$('#btnviewdetails').text('Save').button("refresh");

Upvotes: 23

Wolf

Reputation: 6499

it's work for me html:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" id="btnSaveSchedule">abc</button>

$("#btnSaveSchedule").text("new value");

Upvotes: 6

Drastick

Reputation: 317

$("#btnAddProfile").html('Save').button('refresh');

Upvotes: 0

Olle Klang

Reputation: 9

This should do the trick:

$("#btnAddProfile").prop('value', 'Save');       
$("#btnAddProfile").button('refresh');

Upvotes: 0

JohnP

Reputation: 50009

Depends on what type of button you are using

<input type='button' value='Add' id='btnAddProfile'>
$("#btnAddProfile").attr('value', 'Save'); //versions older than 1.6

<input type='button' value='Add' id='btnAddProfile'>
$("#btnAddProfile").prop('value', 'Save'); //versions newer than 1.6

<!-- Different button types-->

<button id='btnAddProfile' type='button'>Add</button>
$("#btnAddProfile").html('Save');

Your button could also be a link. You'll need to post some HTML for a more specific answer.

EDIT : These will work assuming you've wrapped it in a .click() call, of course

EDIT 2 : Newer jQuery versions (from > 1.6) use .prop rather than .attr

EDIT 3 : If you're using jQuery UI, you need to use DaveUK's method (below) of adjusting the text property

Upvotes: 1047

Sergey

Reputation: 2343

The correct way of changing the button text if it was "buttonized" using JQuery is to use .button() method:

$( ".selector" ).button( "option", "label", "new text" );

Upvotes: 86

DaveUK

Reputation: 1743

For buttons created with .Button() in jQuery........

Whilst the other answers will change the text they will mess up the styling of the button, it turns out that when a jQuery button is rendered the text of the button is nested within a span e.g.

<button id="thebutton">
  <span class="ui-button-text">My Text</span>
</button>

If you remove the span and replace it with text (as in the other examples) - you'll loose the span and associated formatting.

So you actually need to change the text within the SPAN tag and NOT the BUTTON!

$("#thebutton span").text("My NEW Text");

or (if like me it's being done on a click event)

$("span", this).text("My NEW Text");

Upvotes: 161

gotofritz

Reputation: 3381

You can use

$("#btnAddProfile").text('Save');

although

$("#btnAddProfile").html('Save');

would work as well, but it's misleading (it gives the impression you could write something like

$("#btnAddProfile").html('Save <b>now</b>');

but of course you can't

Upvotes: 9

Fengzmg

Reputation: 768

$("#btnviewdetails").click(function(){
    if($(this).val()!="hide details"){
        $("#detailedoutput").show();
        $(this).val('hide details');
    }else{
        $("#detailedoutput").hide();
        $(this).val('view more details');
    }

});

Upvotes: 0

Nicholas Murray

Reputation: 13533

Have you gave your button a class instead of an id? try the following code

$(".btnSave").attr('value', 'Save');

Upvotes: 2

Gluip

Reputation: 2987

If you have button'ed your button this seems to work:

<button id="button">First caption</button>

$('#button').button();//make it nice
var text="new caption";
$('#button').children().first().html(text);

Upvotes: 12

Sangeet Menon

Reputation: 9905

To change the text in of a button simply execute the following line of jQuery for

<input type='button' value='XYZ' id='btnAddProfile'>

use

$("#btnAddProfile").val('Save');

while for

<button id='btnAddProfile'>XYZ</button>

use this

$("#btnAddProfile").html('Save');

Upvotes: 41

John Beynon

Reputation: 37507

that's exactly correct, this works for me;

    $('#btnAddProfile').bind('click',function(){
    $(this).attr('value','save');
})

are you sure Jquery is available and that your code is in the correct place?

Upvotes: -1

curtisk

Reputation: 20175

document.getElementById('btnAddProfile').value='Save';

Upvotes: 4

user657496

Reputation:

Use .val()

Here's a link to JSfiddle

Upvotes: 32

sauerburger

Reputation: 5138

$("#btnAddProfile").click(function(){
    $("#btnAddProfile").attr('value', 'Save');
 });

Upvotes: 5

How to change the text of a button in jQuery?

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