HTML:

<table>
<tr><td>Name </td> <td><INPUT type="text"/></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Age</td> <td><INPUT type="text"/></td> </tr>
<tr><td>Phone no.</td> <td><INPUT type="text"/></td> </tr>
</table>
CSS:
.focus {
border: 2px solid #AA88FF;
background-color: #FFEEAA;
}

jQuery:

<script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery-1.4.4.js"></script>
<
script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {

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

$(this).addClass("focus");

});

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

$(this).removeClass("focus");

});
});
</script>