SO - 25418095

by Arun P Johny

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.css">
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.2.0/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
<div>some other content goes here</div>
<div>some other content goes here</div>
<div>some other content goes here</div>
<div id="search_results" class="hidden">... gets populated from ajax data later ...</div>
<button id="search_button" type="button" class="btn btn-primary pull-right">Search</button>

JavaScript

$('#search_button').click(function () {
    // ... do the call to search
    // and in the callback: 
    $('#search_results').removeClass('hidden');
});