aspx Page
<%@ Page Title="Home Page" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.master" AutoEventWireup="true"
CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<asp:Content ID="HeaderContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="HeadContent">
<script src="Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#MainContent_btnShow").click(function () {
alert("You have clicked on show button");
});
});
</script>
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="BodyContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent">
<asp:Button ID="btnShow" Text="Show" runat="server" />
</asp:Content>
Master Page
<%@ Master Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Site.master.cs" Inherits="SiteMaster" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<link href="~/Styles/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="HeadContent" runat="server">
</asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</head>
<body>
<form runat="server">
<div class="page">
<div class="header">
<div class="title">
<h1>
My ASP.NET Application
</h1>
</div>
<div class="loginDisplay">
<asp:LoginView ID="HeadLoginView" runat="server" EnableViewState="false">
<AnonymousTemplate>
[ <a href="~/Account/Login.aspx" id="HeadLoginStatus" runat="server">Log In</a>
]
</AnonymousTemplate>
<LoggedInTemplate>
Welcome <span class="bold">
<asp:LoginName ID="HeadLoginName" runat="server" />
</span>! [
<asp:LoginStatus ID="HeadLoginStatus" runat="server" LogoutAction="Redirect" LogoutText="Log Out"
LogoutPageUrl="~/" />
]
</LoggedInTemplate>
</asp:LoginView>
</div>
<div class="clear hideSkiplink">
<asp:Menu ID="NavigationMenu" runat="server" CssClass="menu" EnableViewState="false"
IncludeStyleBlock="false" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Items>
<asp:MenuItem NavigateUrl="~/Default.aspx" Text="Home" />
</Items>
</asp:Menu>
</div>
</div>
<div class="main">
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="MainContent" runat="server" />
</div>
<div class="clear">
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
you can also download samp0le project which i've uploaded here