Facebox Dialog boxes - jQuery selectors modify input fields, but no event triggers work

I cannot get a .change(), .click(), or .keydown() trigger to work in any browser on my facebox form.

-- EDIT --- The problem is that facebox CLONES html to display it in the dialog box element. Because of this, jquery selectors work, but event triggers do not (based on the duplicate). The fix is to modify facebox and remove the .clone() behavior.

-- END EDIT --

The following works on document ready:

$('input#testE').css('background-color', 'red');

where #testE is a text input. On load the textbox background is red. however...

$('input#testE').keydown(function() { 
    $('input#testE').css('background-color', 'red');
});

does not trigger. I've also tried .change(), and .click(). Neither will it print to console for testing. My code works fine in jsFiddle, but will not work in my environment. Any thoughts on this?

edit....

to clarify on the document ready issue:

    $(document).ready(function() { //on document load

        console.log('test'); // this works

        $('input#testE').keydown(function() { //won't fire
            $('input#testE').css('background-color', 'red');
        });


                   $('input#testE').css('background-color', 'blue'); //works
            });

When you click the "Request an Account" button, you make a copy of a form that already exists in the document and display it.

When you copy the form, you take its current inline style (the yellow colour) with it, but you don't take the event handler.

If you change #req_acct to display: block, you can see the original form and see the colour change.