Phone: numeric keyboard for text input

Question

Is there a way to force the number keyboard to come up on the phone for an <input type="text">? I just realized that <input type="number"> in HTML5 is for “floating-point numbers”, so it isn’t suitable for credit card numbers, ZIP codes, etc.

I want to emulate the numeric-keyboard functionality of <input type="number">, for inputs that take numeric values other than floating-point numbers. Is there, perhaps, another appropriate input type that does that?

Answer 1

You can do <input type="text" pattern="\d*">. This will cause the numeric keyboard to appear.

See here for more detail: Text, Web, and Editing Programming Guide for iOS

<form>
  <input type="text" pattern="\d*">
  <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>