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I am reading: http://css-tricks.com/textarea-tricks/

In part one:
"1. Image as textarea background, disappears when text is entered."
The code in this part is:

$('textarea')
  .focus(function() { $(this).css("background", "none") })
  .blur(function() { if ($(this)[0].value == '') { $(this).css("background", "url(images/benice.png) center center no-repeat") } });

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I am trying to apply this jquery to my html code given below. But I have not been able to make it work. Upon focus on the textarea, the image has to disappear. The same should happen when user types some text into the textarea.

Question: How I can modify this code to mmake it work?

Thank you.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html lang="EN" dir="ltr" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Border Maker</title>
<style type = "text/css">
h1, h2, h3 {
  text-align:center;
}
textarea, button {
  display: block;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-bottom: 1em;
  background: url(images/benice.png) center center no-repeat;  /*This ruins default border */
  border: 1px solid #888;
}

table {
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto
}

</style>

<!-- <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js"></script> -->
<script src="jquery-1.9.0.js"></script>

</head>
<body>

<script>
  $('textarea')
  .focus(function() { $(this).css("background", "none") })
  .blur(function() { if ($(this)[0].value == '') { $(this).css("background", "url(images/benice.png) center center no-repeat") } });

 /*   $( document ).ready(function() {
 
      $("a").click(function( event ) {
 
        alert("The link will no longer take you to jquery.com");
 
        event.preventDefault();
 
      });
 
    });*/
 </script>

<h1>Border Maker</h1>
<h3>Demonstrates how to read HTML form elements</h3>

<form method = "post"
      action = "borderMaker.php">

<div id = "input">
<h3>Text to modify</h3>

<textarea name = "basicText"
          rows = "10"
          cols = "40">

</textarea>
</div>

<table border = "2">
<tr>
  <td><h3>Border style</h3></td>
  <td colspan = "2"><h3>Border Size</h3></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
<select name = "borderStyle">
  <option value = "ridge">ridge</option>
  <option value = "groove">groove</option>
  <option value = "double">double</option>
  <option value = "inset">inset</option>
  <option value = "outset">outset</option>
</select>
</td>
<td>


<select size = "5"
        name = "borderSize">
  <option value = "1">1</option>
  <option value = "2">2</option>
  <option value = "3">3</option>
  <option value = "5">5</option>
  <option value = "10">10</option>
</select>
</td>

<td>
<input type = "radio"
       name = "sizeType"
       value = "px" 
       checked = "checked" />pixels<br />
<input type = "radio"
       name = "sizeType"
       value = "pt" />points<br />
<input type = "radio"
       name = "sizeType"
       value = "cm" />centimeters<br />
<input type = "radio"
       name = "sizeType"
       value = "in" />inches<br />
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<div>
<button type = "submit">
  show me
</button>
</div>
</form>

</body>
</html>

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Mike Eghtebas

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Thank you all. Specially to kaufmed with great explanations.

Mike

Mike Eghtebas

ASKER

Feedback to kaufmed,

1. missing a couple of semi-colons;
I wasn't sure which ;s are missing. But it worked without changing any ;

2. Second, your script is placed above the actual element that it is targeting...
Good point. This is what I needed.

3. trying to use value, but for jQuery I believe you need to use the method val().
.value == '' works also.

4. you put line breaks between the opening and closing <textarea> tags, this actually make...
The breaks didn't make any difference. Of course, it enters all blank spaces and line returns to the textarea upon focus which forces the user to clear them before typing. So it is a good idea to avoid breaks.

Thanks,

Mike