Set paragraph text with javascript on page load

Question

Basically all I want to do is set the text of a paragraph using JavaScript/jQuery on page load. This is for a simple Kendo UI app.

Can anyone please give me a method of doing this?

I know this is probably a noob question, but I'm semi inexperienced with JavaScript/jQuery.

This is what I've already tried, but it doesn't seem to be working...

<script type="">         $(document).ready(function () {             $("#mac001OEE").val("0%");         }); 

This code has been placed in the head of the HTML page.

Thanks :)

Answer 1

Please try .text() good read here: http://api.jquery.com/text/

demo http://jsfiddle.net/FyVzF/13/ or for your specific example using id please see here http://jsfiddle.net/FyVzF/14/

hope this helps!

code

$(document).ready(function() {      $("p").text('test test Rambo'); }); 

HTML

<p> </p> 

Answer 2

Try this only for a particular paragraph with the id "idname":

$(document).ready(function() {      $("p#idname").text('test test Rambo'); });