How to change the text on a button progamatically?

>>I'm confused. Does the alert work or not?

The Jquery as written does not work. If I get rid of the onclick part (ie just the DOM has loaded) it alerts. But I can't seem to get the event from the

$crud->add_action('Make Active', '', 'Configure/company_update','make-active');

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