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:button Selector

Categories: jQuery Extensions | Form

jQuery(':button')

Description: Selects all button elements and elements of type button.

  • jQuery(':button')

    version added: 1.0

An equivalent selector to $(":button") using valid CSS is $("button, input[type='button']").

Note:

Because :button is a jQuery extension and not part of the CSS specification, queries using :button cannot take advantage of the performance boost provided by the native DOM querySelectorAll() method. To achieve the best performance when using :button to select elements, first select the elements using a pure CSS selector, then use .filter(":button").
  • Find all button inputs and mark them.

    HTML:
    <form>
      <fieldset>
        <input type="button" value="Input Button"/>
        <input type="checkbox" />
    
        <input type="file" />
        <input type="hidden" />
        <input type="image" />
    
        <input type="password" />
        <input type="radio" />
        <input type="reset" />
    
        <input type="submit" />
        <input type="text" />
        <select><option>Option<option/></select>
    
        <textarea></textarea>
        <button>Button</button>
      </fieldset>
    </form>
    
    <div>
    </div>
    CSS:
    
      textarea { height:35px; }
      div { color: red; }
      fieldset { margin: 0; padding: 0; border-width: 0; }
      .marked { background-color: yellow; border: 3px red solid; }
    
    Code:
    
      var input = $(":button").addClass("marked");
      $("div").text( "For this type jQuery found " + input.length + "." );
      $("form").submit(function () { return false; }); // so it won't submit