:filled

Matches elements with a value.

filled means any value, but not only whitespace. The implementation does a check like this: jQuery.trim(value).length > 0

Examples:

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Finds input elements with a non-whitespace value.

$("input:filled").css("background-color", "#bbbbff");

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
                    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jzaefferer.github.com/jquery-validation/jquery.validate.js"></script>
  <script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $("input:filled").css("background-color", "#bbbbff");
  });
  </script>
  
</head>
<body>
  <div>Mouseover to see the value of each input</div><input value="" title='""'/><input value="   " title='"   "'/><input value="abc" title='"abc"'/>
</body>
</html>

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