What is wrong with this jquery expression?

I am trying to select all my textboxes with...

$("input[@type=text]")

From the jquery docs it seems this should be valid syntax.

Down the page at http://docs.jquery.com/DOM/Traversing开发者_开发技巧/Selectors there is an example given...

$("input[@type=radio][@checked]")

... which is very similar to what my expression does. When I 'watch' my expression with FireBug I get a

Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [@type='text'] 

error.

I have tried ...

$("input[@type='text']") as well to no avail. I appreciate any tips!

The API documentation you're looking at is old (probably based on XPath selectors). You want to look at the attribute-equals selector. There's also other attribute selectors (contains, starts with, etc) if you're interested.

$("input[type='text']") should work for you

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/jonathon/hCRkW/

Try:

$('input:text')

And:

$('input:radio')

The @ selectors were deprecated in jQuery 1.2, and I believe disappeared in 1.3.

Try this: $('input[type="text"]')

Try $('input[type=text]').

I think in older version of jquery you needed the @ sign before the attribute name. Newer version don't want it.

See http://api.jquery.com/attribute-equals-selector/