2 Textbox Watermark's

2 Textbox Watermark's

Hello Forum, 

This is my first post, I have been using query for about a week, so I am very new.

I have a form I have made where I want Jquery to add a watermark to a couple of textboxs. I can do it, but I have a couple of problems

1) currently I need to repeat the code (once for each textbox)
2) It has a dependency on the HTML

    $("#requirements").focus(function () {
        if ($(this).val() == "Enter any extra requirements here....")
            $(this).removeClass("watermark").val('');
    }).blur(function () {
        if ($(this).val() == '')
            $(this).addClass("watermark").val("Enter any extra requirements here....");
    });

Problem 1 - How can I apply this to both textboxes, 
Problem 2 - This is dependent of me setting the text default value in the HTML to the same currently "Enter any extra requirements here...."

I release these two problems are related as the 2nd problem has to be resolved first, and the watermark text is not the same for both boxes.

I was trying to sort this out by saying something like

if ($(this).val() == {name field in HTML of text box} )
if ($(this).val() == "Enter any extra requirements  here....")

This way the default values would not be in Jquery but in the HTML, then it makes it easier to fix problem one.

I am so new to Jquery I dont know really where to start :-) - Any help would be great 

Thank you

Graham