I am trying to get jquery to work on a form I have on a usercontrol. My web application has a masterpage, The current page I am working on has several forms which are on usercontrols loaded onto the parent page by the click of a menu control option,which then loads the required form contained on a usercontrol dynamically via a place holder located on the parent page.The placeholder is itself placed in an ajax update panel control. Below is how I have tried to register the jquery datepicker on one of my usercontrols. The usercontrol also contains a textbox which displays the datepicker when a mouse clicks it.However when I run the parent page to load this usercontrol in the placeholder. Nothing happens, nothing is loaded into the placeholder and no error message also. I read it somewhere that javascript codes cannot be registered on usercontrols this way.Please I need full explanations and c sharp codes on how to implement this. I am a beginner asp c# developer with little knowledge on jquery and javascript as well. Thanks.

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="InsertReservation.ascx.cs" Inherits="UserControls_Customers_InsertReservation" %>

    <link type="text/css" href="~/jquery/css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css" />
    <script src="~/jquery/js/jquery-1.4.1.min.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
    <script src="~/jquery/js/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  
    <script type="text/javascript">
    $(function()
    {
     $("#txtArrivalDate").datepicker();
    }
    );
    </script>