How to add text to an existing div with jquery

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You need to define the button text and have valid HTML for the button. I would also suggest using .on for the click handler of the button

$(function () {
  $('#Add').on('click', function () {
    $('<p>Text</p>').appendTo('#Content');
  });
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="Content">
    <button id="Add">Add Text</button>
</div>

Also I would make sure the jquery is at the bottom of the page just before the closing </body> tag. Doing so will make it so you do not have to have the whole thing wrapped in $(function but I would still do that. Having your javascript load at the end of the page makes it so the rest of the page loads incase there is a slow down in your javascript somewhere.

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