17959 2012-07-18 07:23:45 +0000 (I apologize in advance if this shows up multiple times, submit kept giving an error) The "step" attribute of the Input tag, type="numeric": The default step for this input type is 1, thereby forcing all input to be integer only if you leave off the step 2012-08-25 16:25:25 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 70379 0 contributor 2012-07-18 07:23:45 +0000 This was was cloned from bug 17573 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-06-22 05:11:00 +0000 ================================================================================ #0 contributor@whatwg.org 2012-06-22 05:11:16 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: (I apologize in advance if this shows up multiple times, submit kept giving an error) The "step" attribute of the Input tag, type="numeric": The default step for this input type is 1, thereby forcing all input to be integer only if you leave off the step attribute. I really believe the default step should be "any" so that <input type="numeric" name="arg1" /> would accept any number entered like -5, 3.2, 100.23, or -0.0103293 instead of the current implementation that forces such inputs to accept integers only. I, as the developer, should take extra actions to force constraints upon the input as I need them, but should not expect any constraints if I leave them all out. Posted from: 71.62.71.235 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.56 Safari/536.5 ================================================================================ 72769 1 ian 2012-08-25 16:25:25 +0000 Turns out most forms that ask for numbers expect integers, so for convenience we make it the default.