Touch Keyboard Types

Code & Demos

Original testing + code source found on Baymard Institue: http://baymard.com/labs/touch-keyboard-types

E-mail field

Disable auto-correct and disable auto-capitalization. Invoke special @ keyboard.

<input type="email" autocapitalize="off" autocorrect="off">

Phone field

Invoke special phone keyboard. (Note: iOS doesn't allow input of special characters such as parenthesis and dash with the phone keyboard. Thus, never require phone numbers to be formatted with such characters.)

<input type="tel">

Address line field

Disable auto-correct.

<input type="text" autocorrect="off">

ZIP code field

Set input pattern to numeric input. (Note: Argentina, Canada, Netherlands, and UK, may use letters in their postal code. To support these, dynamically change the input pattern depending on selected country.)

<input type="text" pattern="\d*" novalidate>

Credit card number field

Numeric keyboard.

<input type="text" pattern="\d*" novalidate autocorrect="off">

Quantity field

Semantic numeric keyboard.

<input type="number">

Date field

Date picker keyboard. (Note: You may want to implement an actual calendar date picker; see suggestion #7 in this Smashing Magazine article on m-commerce design.)

<input type="date">

Submit button

For the 'Go' button on keyboard to work, avoid using type=button . (Thanks to Todd Gilbert for the tip.)

<input type="submit">