send text with jquery and timer

The idea for my script is to send text from a select menu or a text field to a text area. So far I am able to get the select menu working when I pick an option, but for the text field when i type something it doesn't send anything. Also I would like to add a time to this script so that when a user selects an option or types something in it will send.

Right now it only works woth the select menu...not开发者_如何学Python sure how to also make it work for the text field and add the timer :(

<select id="status" name="status">
    <option value=""></option>
    <option value="Away">Away</option>
    <option value="Busy">Busy</option>
    <option value="Out To Lunch">Out To Lunch</option>
    <option value="Offline">Offline</option>
</select>

<input name="custom_status" type="text">

<div id="counter"></div>

as

$(function() { 
$("#status").change(function() {
   $("textarea[name=mess]", parent.frames['form'].document).val($(this).val());
 });

$("#custom_status").change(function() {
   $("textarea[name=mess]", parent.frames['form'].document).val($(this).val());
 });
});

It would be good to add id to custom status:

<input id="custom_status" name="custom_status" type="text" />

Then you can run function on both parts at the same time:

$("#status, #custom_status").bind('change keyup',function(){
    $("textarea[name=mess]", parent.frames['form'].document).val($(this).val());
});

And handle timeout like this:

var callAway = false;

$('body').bind('mousemove keyup',function(){
    clearTimeout(callAway);
    callAway = setTimeout(function(){
        $("#counter").text("Away");
    },5000);
})

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/eC9L6/

$("[name='custom_status']").change(function() {
   $("textarea[name=mess]", parent.frames['form'].document).val($(this).val());
});

or

$("[name='custom_status']").bind('keyup change', function() {
   $("textarea[name=mess]", parent.frames['form'].document).val($(this).val());
});

Your selector is wrong, there's no input with the id custom_status, but an input with the name custom_status.