Why doesn't focusout c input work?

Question

JavaScript

It seems to work .. What am I doing wrong?

$("input[name='name']").focusout(function(){
        if($(this).val() = ''){
    $(this).val("new_val");
        }
      });

Answer 1

I understand that you were interested in blur, not focusout.
And also you don't know that = is an assignment sign, but == is a comparison. In general, you can shorten the entry:

$("input[name='name']").blur(function(){
   if(!$(this).val())  $(this).val("new_val");
});

or

$("input[name='name']").blur(function(){
   $(this).val() || $(this).val("new_val");
});