1740310 - non-numeric entry allowed in input[type=number] elements on Ubuntu 21.10

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1398528

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Erich Oelschlegel]

Attachment: screenshot of non-numeric entry into an input[type=number] element

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

Steps to reproduce:

User agents tested:
Firefox 94: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0
Chrome (ungoogled-chromium) 91: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36

Both tests using Ubuntu 21.10.

Create a page with single input type="number" element. Visit the page and attempt data entry using a-z chars only

https://codepen.io/oelschlegel/pen/LYjrzZj

Actual results:

FF94 allows non-numeric entry, while Chrome 91 does not.

Expected results:

Non-numeric characters should not be displayed in the input.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Layout: Form Controls' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.