1010184 - Use exponent notation for small values of input type "number"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1005603

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[johannes.postler]

Attachment: Screenshot: comparison Chrome vs. Firefox

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140506152807

Steps to reproduce:

I'm using HTML5 input fields of the type "number" to display small floating point numbers like so:

<input id="id_pressure_tof" name="pressure_tof" step="any" type="number" value="1.3e-07" />


Actual results:

Firefox displays the number as 0 (without any decimals)


Expected results:

Firefox should display 1.3e-7 (or 0.00000013 alternatively). Chrome (and IE!) does it right - screenshot attached.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This seems to work on 30b with the following testcase: http://jsbin.com/pefow/1/edit

Can you confirm that this was fixed since Firefox 29? :-)

Comment 2

[johannes.postler]

Indeed, your testcase goes wrong in 29.1.
I had a look at my problem with 30b3 and it seems to be fine.

Comment 3

[johannes.postler]

However, it displays 0.0000024 instead of 2.4e-6, which is not very readable...

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

The rounding was fixed in bug 1004327. I'm morphing this to be about the display of small values.

Comment 5

[johannes.postler]

Still valid as of the newest 35.0 release.

Comment 6

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 7

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Comment 4 essentially morphed this bug into a duplicate of bug 1005603. I have noticed a related issue when it comes to stepping the value of number inputs, but rather than morph this bug again I've opened bug 1205060 and I'll close this one as a duplicate of bug 1005603.