Question

Is there a selector for all selects (dropdowns)?

I don’t see it here.

Cleanest I’ve come up with is:

$(":input").has("option")

$(":text") gets textboxes & textareas, $(":button") gets buttons, $(":radio") gets radio buttons, $(":checkbox") gets checkboxes…

Where’s $(":select")?

Answer 1

Dude. You’re thinking way too hard about this:

$('select')

The only reason that jQuery provides pseudo-selectors for the other input element types is that there is more than one possible tag for each such type (e.g. <input type="button"> and <button> for :button) but there is only the <select> tag for dropdowns.