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Form text fields (input:text)

Description and Syntax

$(":text")

selects all text fields (<input type="text">).

Examples

The following code counts the text fields for a form.


<html>
  <head>
    <script src="http://java2s.com/style/jquery-1.8.0.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function(){<!--  ww w .  j av a  2  s  . c o m-->
            alert($(":text").length);
        });
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <body>
    <form>
        <input type="button" value="Input Button"/>
    
        <input type="checkbox">asdf</input>
        <input type="checkbox" />
        <input type="checkbox" />
        <input type="file" />
        <input type="hidden" />
        <input type="image" />
        <input type="password" />
        <input type="radio" />
        <input type="reset" />
        <input type="submit" />
        <input type="text" />
    
        <select><option>Option<option/></select>
        <textarea></textarea>
        <button>Button</button>
    </form>    
    </body>
</html>

Click to view the demo

The code above generates the following result.

Form text fields (input:text)

Select text input element

The following code selects text input element inside a form.


<html>
  <head>
    <script src="http://java2s.com/style/jquery-1.8.0.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){<!-- ww  w  .j a  v  a  2s .c o m-->
        var input = $("form input:text");
        $("div").text("For this type jQuery found " + input.length + ".");
    });
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
     <form>
      <input type="text" >java2s.com</input>
    </form>
     <div></div>
  </body>
</html>

Click to view the demo

The code above generates the following result.

Form text fields (input:text)
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