trying to set text_area helper class for css => getting weirdness

rubyonrails-talk
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here's my view code:

<%= f.text_area :notes, :cols => 40, :rows => 15, :class => 'focus' %>

here's what firefox shows is being gen'd:

<textarea rows="15" name="contact[notes]" id="contact_notes" cols="40" class="focus text_area"></textarea>

note that I'm ending up with a class = "focus text_area" instead of the expected "focus"

It doesnt look like I'm doing anything wrong, but... am I?

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You are not doing anything wrong, and there is nothing wrong with the piece of code generated by rails. This is only saying that your element as two classes: 'text_area', which is used by rails, and 'focus'.

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Ahh... good pt.

The thing is, I'm using this with some new jQuery stuff I'm doing where that code looks for input elements with a class == 'focus'... Guess I'll have to change that to look for elements *containing* that class.

But, I'm curious why I dont get the dame thing for text_fields... there the class just comes out as 'focus'.

Any ideas about that?