It looks like there is a space between "input" and "#emailaddress"
and that makes no sense as that will say: "give me the control with id "#emailaddress" that is a descendant of "input"" and <input> controls do not have descendants On Dec 16, 1:27 pm, "Rick Faircloth" <r...@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: > I get no errors, but no response, either. > I tried just using $('#emailaddress').blur... without the "input", > but then I got a val undefined error. > > <script> > > $(document).ready(function() { > > $('input #emailaddress').blur(function() { > > if (this.val.length == 0) > $('#emailerror').show(); > }); > }); > > </script> > > Thanks, > > Rick