jquery - Coloring an asp:button - cant seem to get it to work -

<asp:button id="btnok" runat="server" text="send" width="80px" cssclass="buttonclass" style="color:red;"/> 

i've tried adding class , style tag not seem effect anything. doing wrong?

also tried:

$("input[id$=btnok]").button(); $('input[id$=btnok]').removeclass('defaultclass ui-state-default').addclass('buttonclass'); 

if using asp.net 4.0 can set clientidmode="static" on button , reference as:

$('#btnok')

more info on clientidmode. http://weblogs.asp.net/asptest/archive/2009/01/06/asp-net-4-0-clientid-overview.aspx

otherwise can reference way:

$('#<%=btnok.clientid%>')