JQuery Select Input Fields Except Hidden

$(":input:not([type=hidden])")

":input" is a jQuery pseudo selector... "Selects all input, textarea, select and button elements." http://api.jquery.com/input-selector/

Assuming by "hidden" you mean type="hidden" ie:

<input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar">

then you can use the attribute not equals selector to do this:

$("tr input:checkbox").click(function() {
  var cb = $(this);
  var tr = $(this).closest("tr");
  if (cb.val()) {
    tr.find("input[type!='hidden']").attr("disabled", true);
  } else {
    tr.find("input[type!='hidden']").removeAttr("disabled");
  }
});

My general advice is avoid attribute selectors. They're slow. Give the relevant inputs (either the hidden ones or the not hidden ones) a class and then use that in the selectors.

If however you mean "hidden" as in "not visible" then use the :visible selector:

$("tr input:checkbox").click(function() {
  var cb = $(this);
  var tr = $(this).closest("tr");
  if (cb.val()) {
    tr.find("input:visible").attr("disabled", true);
  } else {
    tr.find("input:visible").removeAttr("disabled");
  }
});

You can also solve this using the hidden selector

$("input:not(:hidden)")

See also: jQuery hidden selector

I found a simple way of doing this in jquery.

$("tr input").not("input[type='hidden']")

In code snippet below, there is a div with an id of tabsDiv that contains multiple html elements and this code gets all input elements inside this div except those with type of hidden.

$("#tabsDiv").find("input").not("input[type='hidden']")