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		chias on Feb 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the inpu... Trying this out in the latest Desktop Firefox, the numberinput and pattern attributes seem to have no effect, and it behaved exactly like a regular type="text" input.

alkonaut on Feb 27, 2020 [–]

The pattern is only a trick to persuade old iOS Safari to show the numeric pad even though it’s “text”.

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