How to select all textareas and textboxes using jQuery?

Question

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?

Answer 1

$('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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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%"});