At times we are in situations where we have to programmatically select all fields or only input fields of a form. We can select every field one by one by using element id, class, tag name or other jQuery selectors, but it is a lengthy process.

Suppose we have to disable a form’s elements.

STEP 1:

Disabling all elements including text, hidden, radio, checkbox, submit, textarea, select of form

$(‘form :input’).attr(‘disabled’,’disabled’);

Here i am selecting form by tag ‘