BlinkMe - Blink elements

Sometimes we have required to have the elements blinked on some events and then detach it on some event

Following script will help achieve that

// Done by Anirudh Gupta
//http://mykbdump.blogspot.com/
(function ($) {

$.fn.blinkme = function (options) {

var defaults = {
bordereffect: false,
bordercolor: 'red',
backgroundeffect: true,
backgroundcolor: 'yellow',
blinkinterval: 400,
eventstoattach: 'focus',
eventstodetach: 'blur'
};
options = $.extend(defaults, options);
return this.each(function () {
var elem = $(this);
var intervalobj = null;
var bordercolor = elem.css("border-color");
var bgcolor = elem.css("backgroundColor");
elem.bind(options.eventstoattach, function () {
var blinked = false;
intervalobj = setInterval(function () {
if (blinked == true) {
elem.css({
'backgroundColor': bgcolor,
'border-color': bordercolor
});
blinked = false;
}
else {
if (options.bordereffect == true) {
elem.css({
'border-color': options.bordercolor
});
}
if (options.backgroundeffect == true) {
elem.css({
'backgroundColor': options.backgroundcolor
});
}
blinked = true;
}
}, options.blinkinterval);
});
elem.bind(options.eventstodetach, function () {
if (intervalobj) {
clearInterval(intervalobj);
elem.css({
'backgroundColor': bgcolor,
'border-color': bordercolor
});
}
});
});
}

})(jQuery);