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		samatman on Feb 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the inpu... You can't entirely avoid referring to JavaScript semantics here, type="number" is for values appropriate to represent and work with as IEEE 754 doubles. That covers a lot of ground, by design. But a 'number' it isn't.

mjevans on Feb 27, 2020 [–]

float, floating, double, etc would have been better choices for that type...

Though 'quantity' as described in another post still sounds the best given the sub 1 and add 1 buttons.

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