Flutterby™! : input type="number"

input type="number"

2020-02-28 18:37:41.434847+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Why the GOV.UK Design System team changed the input type for numbers

However, we recently moved away from <input type=”number”> to <input type=”text” inputmode=”numeric” pattern="[0-9]*"> and published new guidance on how to ask users for numbers.

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#Comment Re: input type="number" made: 2020-03-01 13:21:32.435741+00 by: DaveP

Sigh. All I got was a "this site uses cookies" thing that popped over the page and wouldn’t go away.

#Comment Re: input type="number" made: 2020-03-02 19:07:22.526004+00 by: Dan Lyke

Ugh. I'm using Firefox, but I may have told it "yeah, sure, whatever" on the cookies.

#Comment Re: input type="number" made: 2020-03-03 13:20:31.832301+00 by: DaveP

Yeah, I’m using Safari (with 1Blocker installed and active) on iOS.

One of these days I’ll get OpenBSD running on my PineBook Pro, but not today...

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