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Number input fields
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Number input fields, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 9 complaints
- Scrolling the page accidentally changes a number input value the user just entered2024-10-29
- Mobile number fields force a tiny on-screen keyboard instead of the digit pad2022-09-16
- Users cannot enter decimal numbers because the keypad shows a full stop instead of the locale's comma2022-09-15
- Can't backspace to type a new number when min is set to 02022-09-15
- Scrolling the page silently changes number field values, a cost users pay without knowing2022-07-19
- Browsers round or convert long numbers, like card numbers, to exponential notation, and mouse wheel changes values randomly2022-07-18
- Plain text fields show the full keyboard on phones, making long numbers hard to enter2022-04-12
- Type=number lets users type non-numeric values that silently read as zero on iOS2020-02-27
- Spin buttons appear on fields like phone numbers, which users neither need nor want2020-02-27