How to force keyboard with numbers in mobile website in Android

Question

I have a mobile website and it has some HTML input elements in it, like this:

Answer 1

Add a step attribute to the number input

<input type="number" step="0.01">

Source: http://blog.pamelafox.org/2012/05/triggering-numeric-keyboards-with-html5.html

Answer 2

input type = number

When you want to provide a number input, you can use the HTML5 input type="number" attribute value.

<input type="number" name="n" />

Here is the keyboard that comes up on iPhone 4:

iPhone Screenshot of HTML5 input type number Android 2.2 uses this keyboard for type=number:

Android Screenshot of HTML5 input type number

Answer 3

Some browsers igoners sending leading zero to the server when the input type is "number". So I use a mixing of jquery and html to load a numeric keypad and also make sure that the value is sent as a text not as a number:

$(document).ready(function(){
$(".numberonly").focus(function(){$(this).attr("type","number")});
$(".numberonly").blur(function(){$(this).attr("type","text")});
})

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" class="numberonly">

Answer 4

<input type="number" />
<input type="tel" />

Both of these present the numeric keypad when the input gains focus.

<input type="search" /> shows a normal keyboard with an extra search button

Everything else seems to bring up the standard keyboard.

Answer 5

IMPORTANT NOTE

I am posting this as an answer, not a comment, as it is rather important info and it will attract more attention in this format.

As other fellows pointed, you can force a device to show you a numeric keyboard with type="number" / type="tel", but I must emphasize that you have to be extremely cautious with this.

If someone expects a number beginning with zeros, such as 000222, then she is likely to have trouble, as some browsers (desktop Chrome, for instance) will send to the server 222, which is not what she wants.

About type="tel" I can't say anything similar but personally I do not use it, as its behavior on different telephones can vary. I have confined myself to the simple pattern="[0-9]*" which do not work in Android

Answer 6

inputmode according to WHATWG spec is the the default method.

For iOS devices adding pattern could also help.

For backward compatibility use type as well since Chrome use these as of version 66.

<input
  inputmode="numeric"
  pattern="[0-9]*"
  type="number"
/>