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How to change the text of a button in jQuery?

Andrew Mclaughlin |

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');
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21 Answers

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

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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> <span>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");
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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" );
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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');

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Use .val()

Here's a link to JSfiddle

You need to do .button("refresh")

HTML :

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

JS :

$('#btnviewdetails').text('Save').button("refresh");
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You can use something like this:

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

You can also add extra properties like this:

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

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

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

$("#btnAddProfile").click(function(){ $("#btnAddProfile").attr('value', 'Save'); });
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document.getElementById('btnAddProfile').value='Save';
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it's work for me html:

<button type="button">abc</button>

js

$("#btnSaveSchedule").text("new value");
$(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=""></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>

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

$(".btnSave").attr('value', 'Save');
$("#btnviewdetails").click(function(){ if($(this).val()!="hide details"){ $("#detailedoutput").show(); $(this).val('hide details'); }else{ $("#detailedoutput").hide(); $(this).val('view more details'); }
});
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This should do the trick:

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

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?

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

Changing name of the button etiquette in C#.

<button type="submit" name="add" runat="server" onserverclick="btnUpdate_Click">
Add
btnUpdate.**InnerText** = "Update";

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