in reply to Re: CGI - input number fields
in thread CGI - input number fields

I could understand *that* reasoning for a text field, but the number field? They have a specified range of 0 through 5 (and show "no selection" on the initial form display) so to my way of thinking, as the user hasn't even selected the field, no value has even been selected.

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Re^3: CGI - input number fields
by choroba (Cardinal) on Sep 07, 2017 at 21:28 UTC
    What do you mean by a "number field"? I don't remember anything like that from HTML4.

    ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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      Input type of "number" - as per HTML5. see example below 
      <INPUT MAX="5" MIN="0" NAME="K0030" TYPE="number">

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        I would assume that this is merely a hint to the browser to show you a numeric keyboard.

        The standard says that the empty string is a valid value. So the user agent ("browser") will send it always.

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