html - Make Input Type="Password" Use Number Pad on Mobile Devices

Question

On my site designed for mobile devices I have an input field that is used for PIN numbers. I want the text to be hidden as it is entered and I want the number pad to pop up when the user on the mobile device wants to enter the PIN. The number pad pops up when Type="Number" but not when Type="Password" and I can't (Or don't know how to) set Type="Number and Password".

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Some browsers (iOS) recognize the specific pattern attribute value of [0-9]* as triggering numeric keypad.

The HTML 5.1 draft contains the inputmode attribute, which has been designed to address the specific issue of input mode (like key pad) selection, but it has not been implemented yet.

You could use it for the future, though – even though the current HTML 5.1 does not allow it for type=password, for some odd reason.

<input type="password" pattern="[0-9]*" inputmode="numeric">