title: How to use JQuery, select element by ID and ASP.NET without putting ctl00_ everywhere in the code
body: <p>I have about 600+ references of code similar to the following...</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#ctl00_ContentMainPane_eliteUser").html
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And changed the master template, only to find all the code had broken, due to the control hierarchy changing.</p>
  
  <p>All javascript is included in separate files, so I cannot use code such as this...</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#&lt;%= eliteUser.clientID%&gt;").html
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to have a good solution to fixing this issue so that after fixing it once, I don't have to modify all the code if the template changes in the future.</p>