Html: Proposal : `unit` property for `input type="number"`
(Import of Issue 1417 in W3C/HTML)
I’d like to have to possibility to set a unit property on input type="number".
Browsers would be expected to display the specified unit close to the number (perhaps there would need a specific CSS option to specify if the unit should be before or after the figure, like for $10 vs 10€).
Assistive technologies would be expected to expose the unit to the user, and copy/paste would be expected to copy the number and its unit.
lespacedunmatin
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Instead of only having this available for numeric inputs, it seems it could be more generally applied to all text-like inputs as prefix and postfix.
Or perhaps an even more general display-format attribute that accepts something like a JS template string.
Yay295
on 30 Oct 2019
(Sorry, hit the wrong button…)
lespacedunmatin
on 30 Oct 2019
Heya, please see https://whatwg.org/faq#adding-new-features. In particular, start with step 1 and 2. What is the specific use case you are trying to accomplish which cannot be done today? This might lead you to questions like "how is this different from ::after", etc.
domenic
on 30 Oct 2019
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Instead of only having this available for numeric inputs, it seems it could be more generally applied to all text-like inputs as
prefixandpostfix.Or perhaps an even more general
display-formatattribute that accepts something like a JS template string.