title: jquery changing innerhtml of a P isn't working
body: <p>I have what I thought was a simple select with jQuery to change some text on a paragraph. It works perfect the traditional way i.e.</p>
  
  <pre><code>document.getElementById('message_text').innerHTML = "hello";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But with jQuery it doesn't. I have checked the values of <code>$('#message_text')</code> and sure enough I see the items.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#message_text').innerHTML = "hello";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I doing something wrong?</p>
  
  <p>Anyone have any ideas?</p>