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How to Create a Telephone Input Field in HTML5

Though field validation and data formatting are the biggest challenges of working with web browsers, HTML5 does some help in enforcing this for us. Telephone input field can be created using type=”tel”: <input type="tel" name="phone_num" id="phone_num"/> This looks like every other input field, with the difference that it optimizes the keyboard. Certain platforms like tablets, or smartphones will pop-up only-numeric keyboard for this input field. It is hard to enforce particular regular expression through HTML because of variety of phone number formats used along with differences in country codes, and number separators.

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How to Use Html5 Input Type Email

Before the advent of HTML5, handling emails addresses required more work to validate the email addresses using Javascript. Well all that is now not necessary with the new HTML5 input type email. The email input element has been specifically designed to handle and validate email addresses. Depending on the browser, it will alert the user that the entered information is not correct and the form will not submit until the user makes corrections.

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How to Customize HTML5 Date Field Date Format

When date input was added by HTML5, many believed that it would offer the users a friendly, interactive and known method of entering a date on a website. However; this new addition has failed to live up to the expectations and the major reason behind it remains the fickle nature of the format of the input given by the user. Originally, the date input attribute was designed as a form element to pick values through a datepicker.

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HTML5 Number Input Type

HTML5 has introduced many input types. The number input type is one of them. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use and customize the number input type. This post will also talk about the advantages of using this new input type. What is the number input type? The number input type (<input type=“number”>) is one of the many input types. It gives a numeric input field in an HTML form, which lets you enter numbers in a flexible manner.

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