On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Paul Seale wrote:
> I have a question regarding input tags. Currently when I cant to change the
> style of an input element (select menus, text input, etc) I use the .css
> input call.
So you have a rule with the element name input as the selector:
input { /* some CSS declarations */ }
> My question is this: Is there a way to break it out to format just the
> password and text fields?
Ideally you could use
input[type="text"], input[type="password"] { /* some CSS declarations */ }
but there's the problem that IE 6 and older won't understand it, because
they do not recognize such attribute selectors. Moreover, [type="text"]
matches only such elements that have type="text" _explicitly_ set, not
defaulted as we often default in <input> elements.
So in practice it's safer to use class selectors, e.g. assign a class to
each password and text field and use a class selector. Depending on the
context, there might be other, more convenient ways, like contextual
selectors, e.g.
#foo input { ... }
which applies to all input elements that are inside the element that has
id="foo", and only to them.
--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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