Selectors
Borrowing from CSS 1-3, and then adding its own, jQuery offers a powerful set of tools for matching a set of elements in a document. If you wish to use any of the meta-characters ( such as !"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@[\]^`{|}~ ) as a literal part of a name, you must escape the character with two backslashes: \\. For example, if you have an element with id="foo.bar", you can use the selector $("#foo\\.bar"). The W3C CSS specification contains the complete set of rules regarding valid CSS selectors.
All Selector ("*")
Selects all elements.
:animated Selector
Select all elements that are in the progress of an animation at the time the selector is run.
Attribute Contains Prefix Selector [name|="value"]
Selects elements that have the specified attribute with a value either equal to a given string or starting with that string followed by a hyphen (-).
Attribute Contains Selector [name*="value"]
Selects elements that have the specified attribute with a value containing the a given substring.
Attribute Contains Word Selector [name~="value"]
Selects elements that have the specified attribute with a value containing a given word, delimited by spaces.
Attribute Ends With Selector [name$="value"]
Selects elements that have the specified attribute with a value ending exactly with a given string. The comparison is case sensitive.
Attribute Equals Selector [name="value"]
Selects elements that have the specified attribute with a value exactly equal to a certain value.
Attribute Not Equal Selector [name!="value"]
Select elements that either don't have the specified attribute, or do have the specified attribute but not with a certain value.
Attribute Starts With Selector [name^="value"]
Selects elements that have the specified attribute with a value beginning exactly with a given string.
:button Selector
Selects all button elements and elements of type button.
:checkbox Selector
Selects all elements of type checkbox.
:checked Selector
Matches all elements that are checked.
Child Selector (“parent > child”)
Selects all direct child elements specified by "child" of elements specified by "parent".
Class Selector (“.class”)
Selects all elements with the given class.
:contains Selector
Select all elements that contain the specified text.
Descendant Selector (“ancestor descendant”)
Selects all elements that are descendants of a given ancestor.
:disabled Selector
Selects all elements that are disabled.
Element Selector (“element”)
Selects all elements with the given tag name.
:empty Selector
Select all elements that have no children (including text nodes).
:enabled Selector
Selects all elements that are enabled.
:eq Selector
Select the element at index n within the matched set.
:even Selector
Selects even elements, zero-indexed. See also odd.
:file Selector
Selects all elements of type file.
:first-child Selector
Selects all elements that are the first child of their parent.
:first Selector
Selects the first matched element.
:focus selector
Selects element if it is currently focused.
:gt Selector
Select all elements at an index greater than index within the matched set.
Has Attribute Selector [name]
Selects elements that have the specified attribute, with any value.
:has Selector
Selects elements which contain at least one element that matches the specified selector.
:header Selector
Selects all elements that are headers, like h1, h2, h3 and so on.
:hidden Selector
Selects all elements that are hidden.
ID Selector (“#id”)
Selects a single element with the given id attribute.
:image Selector
Selects all elements of type image.
:input Selector
Selects all input, textarea, select and button elements.
:last-child Selector
Selects all elements that are the last child of their parent.
:last Selector
Selects the last matched element.
:lt Selector
Select all elements at an index less than index within the matched set.
Multiple Attribute Selector [name="value"][name2="value2"]
Matches elements that match all of the specified attribute filters.
Multiple Selector (“selector1, selector2, selectorN”)
Selects the combined results of all the specified selectors.
Next Adjacent Selector (“prev + next”)
Selects all next elements matching
Next Siblings Selector (“prev ~ siblings”)
Selects all sibling elements that follow after the "prev" element, have the same parent, and match the filtering "siblings" selector.
:not Selector
Selects all elements that do not match the given selector.
:nth-child Selector
Selects all elements that are the nth-child of their parent.
:odd Selector
Selects odd elements, zero-indexed. See also even.
:only-child Selector
Selects all elements that are the only child of their parent.
:parent Selector
Select all elements that are the parent of another element, including text nodes.
:password Selector
Selects all elements of type password.
:radio Selector
Selects all elements of type radio.
:reset Selector
Selects all elements of type reset.
:selected Selector
Selects all elements that are selected.
:submit Selector
Selects all elements of type submit.
:text Selector
Selects all elements of type text.
:visible Selector
Selects all elements that are visible.
