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Yarin
Yarin

Reputation: 183909

CSS selector for text input fields?

How can I target input fields of type 'text' using CSS selectors?

Upvotes: 447

Views: 577300

Answers (8)

Navneet Kumar
Navneet Kumar

Reputation: 671

input[type="text"]

This will select all the input type text in a web-page.

Upvotes: 0

Aamir Shahzad
Aamir Shahzad

Reputation: 6834

In jQuery you can use the :text selector to select all inputs with type text. See the working Fiddle here.

$(document).ready(function () {
    $(":text").css({  // or $("input:text")
        'background': 'green',
        'color':'#fff'
    });
});

:text is a jQuery extension and not part of the CSS specification. Queries using :text cannot take advantage of the performance boost provided by the native DOM querySelectorAll() method. For better performance in modern browsers, use [type="text"] instead. This will work for IE6+.

$("[type=text]").css({  // or $("input[type=text]")
    'background': 'green',
    'color':'#fff'
});

For regular CSS, use the following:

[type=text] { /* or input[type=text] */
    background: green;
}

Upvotes: 11

Amit Mhaske
Amit Mhaske

Reputation: 471

I wanted to style a text input field inside a table row. I did it with this code:

.admin_table input[type=text]:focus {
    background-color: #FEE5AC;
}

Upvotes: 2

Volker E.
Volker E.

Reputation: 6044

As @Aamir mentions, the best way nowadays – cross-browser and leaving behind IE6 – is to use this:

[type=text] {}

Nobody mentioned lower CSS specificity (why is that important?) yet. [type=text] features 0,0,1,0 instead of 0,0,1,1 with input[type=text].

Performance-wise there's no negative impact at all any more.

normalize v4.0.0 just released with lowered selector specificity.

Upvotes: 2

Yi Jiang
Yi Jiang

Reputation: 50135

You can use the attribute selector here:

input[type="text"] {
    font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
}

This is supported in IE7 and above. You can use IE7.js to add support for this if you need to support IE6.

See: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/attributeselector for more information

Upvotes: 48

Alin P.
Alin P.

Reputation: 44366

input[type=text]

or, to restrict to text inputs inside forms

form input[type=text]

or, to restrict further to a certain form, assuming it has id myForm

#myForm input[type=text]

Notice: This is not supported by IE6, so if you want to develop for IE6 either use IE7.js (as Yi Jiang suggested) or start adding classes to all your text inputs.

Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#attribute-selectors

Because it is specified that default attribute values may not always be selectable with attribute selectors, one could try to cover other cases of markup for which text inputs are rendered:

input:not([type]), /* type attribute not present in markup */
input[type=""],    /* type attribute present, but empty    */
input[type=text]   /* type is explicitly defined as 'text' */

Still this leaves the case when the type is defined, but has an invalid value and that still falls back to type="text". To cover that we could use select all inputs that are not one of the other known types

input:not([type=button]):not([type=password]):not([type=submit])...

But this selector would be quite ridiculous and also the list of possible types is growing with new features being added to HTML.

Notice: the :not pseudo-class is only supported starting with IE9.

Upvotes: 781

Santosh Khalse
Santosh Khalse

Reputation: 12720

With attribute selector we target input type text in CSS

input[type=text] {
background:gold;
font-size:15px;
 }

Upvotes: -1

garrettwinder
garrettwinder

Reputation: 165

I usually use selectors in my main stylesheet, then make an ie6 specific .js (jquery) file that adds a class to all of the input types. Example:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("input[type='text']").addClass('text');
)};

And then just duplicate my styles in the ie6 specific stylesheet using the classes. That way the actual markup is a little bit cleaner.

Upvotes: 13

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