Highlight HTML Table Row on Textbox focus using jQuery

While working with a GridView control, we often come across a situation where we want to highlight a GridView row on mouse over. Here we got another scenario. We have an HTML table with multiple textboxes in it. I am going to show you how to highlight an entire table row, when the focus is on a textbox.

Highlight HTML table row on Textbox Focus using jQuery

Assuming that we have three textboxes in each table row, and when the focus is on a particular textbox, the entire row is highlighted and remains highlighted even if we switch focus between the textboxes in the same row.

We don’t have to identify each control in a row or the entire table; rather we can group the controls together using CSS. The rest can be taken care of by jQuery .class selector.

See this demo

Browser Support:
Chrome 39.0 - Yes | FireFox 34.0 - Yes | Internet Explorer 10 - Yes | Safari - Yes

Here's the code

<head>
    <title>Highlight Table Row on Textbox focus using jQuery</title>
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

    <style>
        th, td, p, input {
            font:12px Verdana;
        }
        table, th, td 
        {
            border: solid 1px #DDD;
            border-collapse: collapse;
            padding: 2px 3px;
            text-align: center;
        }
        th {
            font-weight:bold;
        }
        table:first-child tr:first-child td { 
            padding:0 0 10px 0; 
        }

        .grpTextBox {
            text-align:left; 
            font:inherit; 
            padding:2px 4px; 
            margin:1px auto; 
            border:solid 1px #BFBFBF; 
            border-radius:2px; 
            -moz-border-radius:2px; 
            -webkit-border-radius:2px;
        }
        .highlight_row {
            background-color:#CCC; 
            color:#000;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>
    <h3>Mobile Inventory</h3>
    <p>Set focus on a textbox to see the result. Use Tab key to go to the next row.</p>

    <div>
        <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
            <tr>
                <td><b>Brand</b></td>
                    <td><b>Product ID</b></td>
                        <td><b>Quantity</b></td>
                            <td><b>Price ($)</b></td>
                                <td><b>Total Amount ($)</b></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Sony</td><td>EN-101</td>
                    <td><input type="text" class="grpTextBox" /></td>
                    <td><input type="text" class="grpTextBox" /></td>
                    <td><input type="text" class="grpTextBox" /></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Samsung</td><td>EN-102</td>
                    <td><input type="text" class="grpTextBox" /></td>
                    <td><input type="text" class="grpTextBox" /></td>
                    <td><input type="text" class="grpTextBox" /></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Nokia</td><td>EN-103</td>
                    <td><input type="text" class="grpTextBox" /></td>
                    <td><input type="text" class="grpTextBox" /></td>
                    <td><input type="text" class="grpTextBox" /></td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </div>
</body>

<script>
    $('.grpTextBox').focus(function() {
        $(this).closest('tr').addClass('highlight_row');
    });
    $('.grpTextBox').blur(function() {
        $(this).closest('tr').removeClass('highlight_row');
    });
</script>
</html>

Try it

The jQuery .class selector in the script will look for elements (in our case textboxes) with a class named .grpTextBox.

The .closest() method will search for the row in which the selected (or focused) textbox exists and the .addClass() method will add a CSS class .highlight_row with the associated row.

Similarly the .removeClass() will remove the classand set it as it was before.

See this demo

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