[Solved[ jquery .focus() issue

[mjohnson025]

Hi, I’m trying to append and prepend brackets onto the item in focus, but getting a syntax error. i’ve tried searching elsewhere before asking, but haven’t come up with anything yet.

$(‘:text’).focus(function(){
$(this).append(‘);
$(this).prepend(‘);
})

[jamygolden]

Could you explain what exactly this would be used for? Is this for items in a textbox or just text in general?

[mjohnson025]

the goal is to add brackets around the text inputs when they are in focus.

[jamygolden]

I think it would be something like this:

$("input[type='text']").focus(function(){

$(this).before("image-left.jpg").after("image-right.jpg");

});

[mjohnson025]

dude, you rock! Thank you.

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