I am using a HTML5 input box with type=\"number\"
. Regarding to some documentations, it should be possible to enter a number with comma (not with period) if I a
As for now, I have tried
<html lang="en">
or
<input type="number" lang="en">
and it let me to input any: comma or period. I have tested it on desktop Ubuntu and mobile Android in Firefox and Chrome.
actually, if i read the documentation correctly, pattern
is not supported for type=number
. hence, stick to type=text
and then add pattern="..."
for the front end validation. in the next step, you will then need to convert the text input into a real number if it wasn't compatible to JavaScript/computing format.
2017 and still no good solution for this common problem...
As of now (30/08/2017), Antoine Thiry's answer seems to be no longer valid in Chrome (my version is 60.0.3112.113). Unfortunately I don't have any other suggestion, other than simulating type="number" with javascript.