SO http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18679214/is-there-anything-special-about-input-boxes-that-would-cause-them-to-not-respond

by Luis Lebolo

HTML

<div id='center'>
    <p id='answerprompt'>Answer:</p>
    <input id="answerBox" type="text" name="firstname" />
</div>

JavaScript

$("#answerBox").click( function(e) {
     alert(e.target);
     $('#center').fadeOut(1000, function () {});
 });