Selecting a control using ID and displaying its value

This recipe demonstrates how to access basic ASP.NET controls, such as CheckBoxList, TextBox, and RadioButtonList on a web form using jQuery's #identifier selector. The constructs used in this example are as follows:

Construct	Type	Description
$(#identifier)	jQuery selector	This selects an element based on its ID
$(this)	jQuery object	This refers to the current jQuery object
:checked	jQuery selector	This selects checked input elements
.click()	jQuery event binder	This binds a handler to the click event of an element
.each()	jQuery method	This iterates over the matched elements and executes a function for each element
.find()	jQuery method	This finds all elements that match the filter
.html()	jQuery method	This returns the HTML content of the first matched element or sets the HTML content of every matched element
.is()	jQuery method	This returns a Boolean value if the matched element satisfies...