Accessing elements by type in JavaScript
If you are lucky and need to care only for recent browsers, you can use:
document.querySelectorAll('input[type=text]')"recent" means not IE6 and IE7
In plain-old JavaScript you can do this:
var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');for(var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) { if(inputs[i].type.toLowerCase() == 'text') { alert(inputs[i].value); }}In jQuery, you would just do:
// select all inputs of type 'text' on the page$("input:text")// hide all text inputs which are descendants of div class="foo"$("div.foo input:text").hide();
The sizzle selector engine (what powers JQuery) is perfectly geared up for this:
var elements = $('input[type=text]');Or
var elements = $('input:text');