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:button Selector

button selector

version added: 1.0jQuery(':button')

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

Additional Notes:

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").

Example:

Finds all button inputs.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <style>
  textarea { height:45px; }
  </style>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <form>
    <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>
  </form>
  <div>
  </div>
<script>

    var input = $(":button").css({background:"yellow", border:"3px red solid"});
    $("div").text("For this type jQuery found " + input.length + ".")
            .css("color", "red");
    $("form").submit(function () { return false; }); // so it won't submit

</script>

</body>
</html>

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