Use attribute or selector

Question

Which is better to select textbox:

input[type=text] or input:text

Which to use?

Answer 1

The shortest:

$('input:text')

Answer 2

Remember you can also do

$(':text')

Although this is not recommended by the manual.

Answer 3

Please note that Internet Explorer does not support

input[type=text]

CSS selector, but it will work on JQuery. The simplest, is, of course

:text