How to select all textareas and textboxes using jQuery?

Question

How can I select all textboxes and textareas, e.g:

and

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 elements. See Selectors documentation for more info.