Example of JQuery Querying
I was trying to tap into Telerik Markup using JQuery, and I had an epiphany why what I was trying to do wasn't working. What I was trying to do was target a DIV element, and I did this:
$(control.get_element()).children("DIV > DIV.message").html("New update");
What I was expecting was to update the DIV with the message. However, the children method returns the reference to the parent DIV, which happens to have a child with a class name of message. Switching this to:
$(control.get_element()).children("DIV").children("DIV.message").html("New Update");
Fixed the issue. In actuality, what I did was because there was only one message, by supplying a unique ID, I could do:
$("#myuniqueid").html("New Update");
And circumvented this whole mess!