Thursday, May 5, 2011

How to select all textareas and textboxes using jQuery?

How can I select all textboxes and textareas, e.g:

<input type='text' />

and

<textarea></textarea>

on a page and have the property style.width="90%"; applied to them?

From stackoverflow
  • $('input[type=text], textarea').css({width: '90%'});
    

    That uses standard CSS selectors, jQuery also has a set of pseudo-selector filters for various form elements, for example:

    $(':text').css({width: '90%'});
    

    will match all <input type="text"> elements. See Selectors documentation for more info.

  • $("**:**input[type=text], :input[type='textarea']").css({width: '90%'});
    
    roryf : Why post the same answer twice? If there is something special about the minor differences, please explain them!
    eyelidlessness : I personally appreciate knowing about jQuery's :input pseudo-selector. +1 for showing me something new.
  • Password boxes are also textboxes, so if you need them too:

    $("input[type='text'], textarea, input[type='password']").css({width: "90%"});
    

    and while file-input is a bit different, you may want to include them too (eg. for visual consistency):

    $("input[type='text'], textarea, input[type='password'], input[type='file']").css({width: "90%"});
    

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