input[type='text'] CSS selector does not apply to default-type text inputs?

Question

The default input type is \'text\'. I have always assumed then that CSS declarations targeting input[type=\'text\'] would affect those inputs even if the type was n

Answer 1

Because, it is not supposed to do that.

input[type=text] { } is an attribute selector, and will only select those element, with the matching attribute.