[html] CSS selector for text input fields?

How can I target input fields of type 'text' using CSS selectors?

With attribute selector we target input type text in CSS

input[type=text] {
background:gold;
font-size:15px;
 }

You can use the attribute selector here:

input[type="text"] {
    font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
}

This is supported in IE7 and above. You can use IE7.js to add support for this if you need to support IE6.

See: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/attributeselector for more information

I had input type text field in a table row field. I am targeting it with code

.admin_table input[type=text]:focus
{
    background-color: #FEE5AC;
}

You can use :text Selector to select all inputs with type text

Working Fiddle

$(document).ready(function () {
    $(":text").css({    //or $("input:text")
        'background': 'green',
        'color':'#fff'
    });
});

:text is a jQuery extension and not part of the CSS specification, queries using :text cannot take advantage of the performance boost provided by the native DOM querySelectorAll() method. For better performance in modern browsers, use [type="text"] instead. This will work for IE6+.

$("[type=text]").css({  // or $("input[type=text]")
    'background': 'green',
    'color':'#fff'
});

CSS

[type=text] // or input[type=text] 
{
    background: green;
}

input[type=text]

This will select all the input type text in a web-page.

As @Amir posted above, the best way nowadays – cross-browser and leaving behind IE6 – is to use

[type=text] {}

Nobody mentioned lower CSS specificity (why is that important?) so far, [type=text] features 0,0,1,0 instead of 0,0,1,1 with input[type=text].

Performance-wise there's no negative impact at all any more.

normalize v4.0.0 just released with lowered selector specificity.

The attribute selectors are often used for inputs. This is the list of attribute selectors:

[title] All elements with the title attribute are selected.

[title=banana] All elements which have the 'banana' value of the title attribute.

[title~=banana] All elements which contain 'banana' in the value of the title attribute.

[title|=banana] All elements which value of the title attribute starts with 'banana'.

[title^=banana] All elements which value of the title attribute begins with 'banana'.

[title$=banana] All elements which value of the title attribute ends with 'banana'.

[title*=banana] All elements which value of the title attribute contains the substring 'banana'.

Reference: https://kolosek.com/css-selectors/

I usually use selectors in my main stylesheet, then make an ie6 specific .js (jquery) file that adds a class to all of the input types. Example:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("input[type='text']").addClass('text');
)};

And then just duplicate my styles in the ie6 specific stylesheet using the classes. That way the actual markup is a little bit cleaner.