Question

I want to apply a CSS class to every textbox in my site:

        <div class="editor-label">
            <label for="FoodType">FoodType</label>
        </div>
        <div class="editor-field">
            <input id="HelpText" name="FoodType" type="text" value="" />
        </div>

        <p>
            <input type="submit" value="Create" />
        </p>

And I thought, Hey! Easy. I’ll add a jquery function to find them all in the masterpage.

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $('input').addClass('textbox');
    }
</script>

Unfortunately this will also select the submit button. How can i only select input elements that have a text type attribute?

Alternativly is this possible using entirely CSS?

If both these methods are not possible, i guess i will just have to manually add the class to every textbox i make?

Answer 1

AFAIK it’s:

$('input[type=text]').addClass('textbox');

And you can do similar in the CSS file, but that requires higher version of CSS / depending how broad you want to be with older browsers.

See attribute selectors in here. Note that:

“Browser support: The only browser that doesn’t support CSS3 attribute selectors is IE6. Both IE7 and IE8, Opera and Webkit- and Gecko-based browsers do. So using them in your style sheet is definitely safe.”