[forms] Number input intrinsic size. about html HOT 11 OPEN

cc @mfreed7 @josepharhar @annevk

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Icky.

So the spec and MDN both say size doesn't apply to number inputs. I'm not sure if there was logic behind that decision? It does seem reasonable to me to expand it to include number inputs, but yeah I'd be concerned about compat.

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@mfreed7 the compat issue you linked is tangential to whether number inputs respect the size attribute. I've never seen a compat issue on Firefox for respecting size.

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@mfreed7 the compat issue you linked is tangential to whether number inputs respect the size attribute. I've never seen a compat issue on Firefox for respecting size.

Right, of course. I just meant that changing the layout size of <input type=number> based on attributes can be a source of breakage. The Firefox issue was about min/max, but I don't see a reason, a-priori, to assume that changes to the width based on size won't break something too. I don't think we have any use counter data measuring <input type=number size> usage. Do you have any data on this?

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I do not. Happy to add it and come back here in a couple months if you want (but changing based on size is what I'd expect off-hand since that's what happens on most other text inputs)

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cc @pxlcoder @nt1m

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I do not. Happy to add it and come back here in a couple months if you want (but changing based on size is what I'd expect off-hand since that's what happens on most other text inputs)

Cool, thanks! I agree with the sentiment that it would make sense for size to work on number inputs, if it's web compatible.

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Reading this thread again I'm not sure about doing 2 as size would be a presentational attribute here.

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I think size is at the border of presentational versus semantic: as a semantic you could see it as saying "this is the number of characters that the input's value should be able to hold".

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That's fair and it seems like we haven't attempted to make it non-conforming generally, but then the proposal would have to include:

1. Make size conforming to use for <input type=number>.

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Sure, consider that part of the proposal :)

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