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// use the val() function to get the text inside the textfield

// change the background of every div to red $("div").css("backgroundColor", "#ff0000"); // - or - $("div").css("backgroundColor", "red"); // - or - $("div").css({backgroundColor: "#ff0000"}); // notice the braces and lack of quotes

see the problem with them

You would definitely not want to place style code into the JavaScript code if you can help it.

<img src="/images/space.gif" id="spacer" class="a b c" alt="blank"> // Calls to the attr() function will return the following $("#spacer").attr("src"); // will return "/images/space.gif" $("#spacer").attr("alt"); // will return "blank" // Similarly, you can access the ID in the same way $(img).each(function(){ $(this).attr("id"); // will return "spacer" });