How to force numeric keypad from an input box (HTML)

[yarbrough40]

I built a web-based application (HTML) optimized for mobile devices. Is there any way to force the numeric pad to come up when clicking an input box (as opposed to the qwerty default)?

[markmcgookin]

This is difficult because a "numeric keypad" is a device specific thing.... There may be a way to mask the box so that it can only accept numbers, mobile OSs might be able to pick this up and only show a numeric keypad, but you'll need to refer to each OSs specific documentation to find out if this is possible and what the triggers for such a response would be.

[yarbrough40]

Thanks, yeah I figured this was the case.

[jawadahmad]

there is a solution for your problem.
Use this in your css and your mobile input will be forced to give only number keypad means only numbers will be entered.
<input type="text" style="-wap-input-format: 'N'"/>

[yarbrough40]

Nice! Thanks..... I'll give it a try

[Simon27]

Or the new HTML5 input types:

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

Will bring up the appropriate keypad if the mobile browser supports it. If not, then it is treated like a text field for backwards compatibility.

More: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archiv...5_input_types/