jQuery Form Focus Plugin

This jQuery plugin will add a background color to text, password, and textarea input fields in forms when focused, and then revert to the original background color on blur. It is a one line call, with one (optional) parameter, the background color.

You can target all forms on the page with this simple line:

$('form').formFocus();

This will default the focused background color to: #f0f0c0

You can specify the background color as follows:

$('form').formFocus({backgroundcolor:'#ff0000});

which would make the focused background color a very bright red. You can also target forms specifically, whether you only want to use it on a single form, or if you want to specify different background colors for each.

$('#demo1').formFocus({backgroundcolor:'#ff0000});

$('#demo2').formFocus({backgroundcolor:'#0000ff});

Download jQuery Form Focus Plugin

2 comments

  1. @Gareth Price, sadly the CSS :focus pseudo-class isn’t supported in IE6 or IE7. If you want a wider range of browser support, this plugin will do the trick. The CSS pseudo-class is a great way to progressively enhance the site.

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