Change background color on mouseover and remove it after mouseout

Question

I have table which class is forum. My jquery code:

Answer 1

Try this , its working and simple

HTML

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Javascript

$(document).ready(function() {
    var colorOrig=$(".forum").css('background-color');
    $(".forum").hover(
    function() {
        //mouse over
        $(this).css('background', '#ff0')
    }, function() {
        //mouse out
        $(this).css('background', colorOrig)
    });
});​

css ​

.forum{
    background:#f0f;
}​

live demo

http://jsfiddle.net/caBzg/