Question

I have a situation like this,
Iam trying to select a label using Id selector and sets its value..Due to some reason it doesnt seem to be working

 $(document).ready(function () {
                $("#Label3").val("hii");
            });

How do I verify that $("#Label3") has indeed selected the label.

The label is rendered like this:

<span id="Label3"></span>

Answer 1

You can check the number of elements in the result returned by $("#Label3") by looking at the length:

var label3 = $("#Label3");
if (label3.length == 0) {
    // not found
}

The reason why your code doesn’t work is that you need to set text not val:

$("#Label3").text("hii");