[whatwg] Form input element for value-unit pairs
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Wed May 2 14:56:11 PDT 2012
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Christoph Päper wrote:
>
> Imagine a richt text processor done in HTML5. If you want to select the
> font size (of a template or class, of course) how would you do it?
>
> Standalone word processors usually have a combo field that lets the user
> enter a number [...] possibly adding controls for increasng and
> decreasing [...] or they may allow the user to select one of the
> predefined recommended or frequent values.
So far, <input type=number> handles these.
> In other places, software interface designers honor the variety of
> absolute and relative (length) units by introducing a widget that bears
> the number and the unit symbol, [...] Thus, would it make sense to add
> another new type for the "input" element?
I think it would make sense to add something like this if we find that
people do that kind of thing a lot. Currently you can get close using a
type=number with a <select>; do sites do that?
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Diogo Resende wrote:
>
> This is just a numeric input. It has a unit, just like a monetary value,
> but besides that it's just a number. Maybe a numeric input should have
> some type of formatting to proper show the unit (prefix/suffix, decimals
> places, decimal sep., ...).
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Christoph Päper wrote:
>
> A new type is probably not necessary, because a new attribute that is
> called something like unit and is only valid in the number and
> range states could be enough.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Diogo Resende wrote:
>
> For me it would be great that a UA would implement an numberic input
> with a visible but unchanged unit. Something like an <input>+<span> but
> the span looking to be inside the input.
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> Extra:
>
> This is more interesting for other types of input, not necessarily
> numeric, like IPv4, currencies, HH:MM, ..
That's an interesting idea, but it might be something we should leave to
the Web Components work.
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