Is it okay to use <input type="tel"/> now?

html mobile-website backwards-compatibility
Michael picture Michael · May 11, 2010 · Viewed 93.7k times · Source

I'm working on a mobile phone web app and I have several text fields that could benefit from <input type="tel"/>. iPhones will adjust the keyboard for the user, but I'm worried about breaking backwards compatibility. What I'm hoping is that browsers/phone that support this can assist the user and other browser will fall back to a standard text field? Is this an acceptable practice? Does it even work?

Answer

animuson picture animuson · May 11, 2010

Yes, any unsupported type will revert to the 'type=text' format.

I found a good page which lists out all the existing input types. I tried looking at it from different browsers, a bit interesting. Don't know if it will help you or not.

http://miketaylr.com/pres/html5/forms2.html

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