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Form button selector.

Shorthand version $(':button')

Description

The :button selector, selects all button and type button elements.

• Being a jQuery extension the :button pseudo selector is not part of any current CSS specification. Therefore :button cannot take advantage of the performance boost provided by the native DOM querySelectorAll() method.
• The same results can be achieved with valid CSS using $("button, input[type='button']"), without the hit to performance.
• If this selector is not preceded by another selector, the universal selector ("*") is implied and so the whole DOM will be searched. Use another selector as in the examples below to narrow the search and improve performance.

Syntax

Parameters

None.

Return

N/A.

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Selects all button elements.

In the example below we apply an orange background to 'button' elements within the form filtered by class 'ourform'.

$(function(){
  $('.ourform').submit(function () { return false; }); // disable submit 
 
  $('#btn1').on('click', function() {
    $('.ourform: button').css('backgroundColor', 'orange');
  });
});

Related Tutorials

jQuery Basic Tutorials - Lesson 4 - jQuery Selectors

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