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Bug 23419 - The inputmode attribute should be allowed for type=password. A common use case is reading a numeric PIN, for which inputmode=numeric would be adequate and could cause a much more convenient UI to be used.
Summary: The inputmode attribute should be allowed for type=password. A common use cas...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 enhancement
Target Milestone: 2013 Q4
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-10-02 04:37 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-10-04 20:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-10-02 04:37:09 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#password-state-(type=password)
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#password-state-(type=password)
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
The inputmode attribute should be allowed for type=password. A common use case
is reading a numeric PIN, for which inputmode=numeric would be adequate and
could cause a much more convenient UI to be used.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-10-03 18:36:03 UTC 
Interesting idea.
Comment 2 contributor 2013-10-04 20:59:26 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8211.
Check-in comment: Allow inputmode='' on type=password, so that you can set the input mode to numeric for PIN passwords
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8210&to=8211