jQuery: how to find first visible input/select/textarea excluding buttons?

Question

I tried

$(\":input:not(input[type=button],input[type=submit],button):visible:first\")

but it doesn\'t find anything.

What is my mis

Answer 1

This is an improvement over @Mottie's answer because as of jQuery 1.5.2 :text selects input elements that have no specified type attribute (in which case type="text" is implied):

$('form').find(':text,textarea,select').filter(':visible:first')