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I want to use the html5 element <input type="number"> on my website, but i want to know what happens to this field in browsers that do not support this feature? Is it than a classic <input type="text"> field for those browsers?
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Mozilla Firefox Firefox version 2 and 3.6 doesn't supports HTML5 form features property.
HTML5 is now compatible with all popular browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE9, and Opera) and with the introduction of DOCTYPE, it is even possible to have a few HTML features in older versions of Internet Explorer too.
If HTML 5 Input Types are not supported on a browser, they will behave as regular text fields.
When you view a new HTML5 form input type in an older browser, most of the browsers both old and the new can handle the HTML elements even they are unrecognized as input elements. But as a user, you can make the browser to identify and handle those input types.
In this article, I will demonstrate cross browser compatibility of the new input form fields that were introduced with the introduction of HTML5. I will design a simple HTML form with all input fields, and will perform cross browser testing for that form using LambdaTest.
1 Definition and Usage. The <input type="number"> defines a field for entering a number. Tip: Always add the <label> tag for best accessibility practices! 2 Browser Support 3 Syntax
Since we already know that whenever a input type is not supported by the browser, it gets default to text input type. Now color input type actually takes input as the hexadecimal value of the color. This means if a browser is not supporting color input type then the user has to enter the input in hexadecimal format.
The HTML5 input types Prerequisites: Basic computer literacy, and a basic und ... Objective: To understand the newer input type value ...
When a browser does not recognize a particular type value for an <input>, it reverts to it's default value, which is text. So, all of the following are equivalent on browsers that do not support type="number":
<input type="number"> <input type="somevaluethatdoesntexist"> <input type="text"> <input> For browsers that do support type="number", the number <input> will be displayed instead of the text <input>.
Read more about the type attribute in the HTML Specification.
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