Question

I have the following code to get me the id of what ever input is in focus:

$('#searchColumnFields input').focus(function(){
    thisId = $(this).css('id');
    $(this).css('border-color', '#CCEBFF');
    pos = $(this).position() ;
    $('#searchHelper').html(thisId);
    $('#searchHelper').fadeIn(250).css('left', pos.left-20);
})

However, thisId keeps coming back null.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Did you mean

    thisId = $(this).prop('id') ;

or

    thisId = $(this).attr('id');