Selector button

The selector :button selects button elements and all elements with the type button. See the tags button, input with the type button. The equivalent of $(':button') is $('button'), $("input[type='button']"). Since :button is not part of the CSS specification, for better performance in modern browsers it is better to first filter the elements using a pure CSS selector and then apply .filter(':button').

Syntax

This is how we select buttons:

javascript$(':button');

Example

Let's, according to the theory above, select all the buttons and give them a green background and a red border by adding the class marked to them using the addClass method:

html<form>
  <input type="button" value="button">
  <input type="file">
  <button>button</button>
  <input type="reset">
  <input type="radio">
  <input type="text">
</form>

css.marked {
  background-color: green;
  border: 2px red solid;
}

javascript$(':button').addClass('marked');

$('form').submit(function(event) {
  event.preventDefault(); // prevents form submission
});

See also