JQuery iterating through textboxes and changing its color

I'm trying to iterate through all the empty textboxes in a table and change its background colour. I'm using the following JQuery code:

    $("#btn2").click(function() {
            var emptyTextBoxes = $('input:text').filter(function() { return this.value == ""; });
            emptyTextBoxes.each(function() {
            this.css('background-color', '#ffff00');
//            $('#Col3Txtbx').css开发者_Go百科('background-color', '#ffff00');    
            });
        });

This does not seem to refer to the textbox which seems strange to me. When I uncomment out the particular textbox, it does reset the background colour.

Can someone explain to me what 'This' is referring to?

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The each function works a little differently:

$("#btn2").click(function() {
  var emptyTextBoxes = $('input:text').filter(function() { return this.value == ""; });
  emptyTextBoxes.each(function(index, element) {
    $(element).css('background-color', '#ffff00');
  });
});

But you can make this work without each() as well:

$("#btn2").click(function() {
  var emptyTextBoxes = $('input:text').filter(function() { return this.value == ""; });
  emptyTextBoxes.css('background-color', '#ffff00');
});

Even shorter version:

$("#btn2").click(function() {
  $("input:text[value='']").css('background-color', '#ffff00');
});

Edit: as "rz" pointed out, you can still use the this keyword, but you'll have to wrap the element into a jQuery object:

$("#btn2").click(function() {
  var emptyTextBoxes = $('input:text').filter(function() { return this.value == ""; });
  emptyTextBoxes.each(function() {
    $(this).css('background-color', '#ffff00');
  });
});

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As per the docs, the callback to each will be passed an index and the element in question and this will be set to the domElement. So, change this.css('background-color', '#ffff00') to $(this).css('background-color', '#ffff00');

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the this that is changing the color is referring to the button. If you move this where you return this.value it might work.