Basic Mobile Form Question

scambro

I have a fairly basic form on my mobile page that I want to default a field to using numbers.

Mileage: <input type="text" name="visit_mileage" style="width:80px" class="basic" value=""><br />

This seems like a basic question, but I couldn't seem to find an answer as to if this was possible at all. So I go to this page on my phone and my input type on my phone is set to Abc. Is there a way that I can force it to be 123 (or ALT) for this field?

Thanks!

jim_keller

I don't think there's any standard way of doing this, since the implementation would probably differ from phone to phone. It would be interesting to see a DTD or CSS option for mobile devices that allows switching from alpha to numeric, but at the moment I'm under the impression that it doesn't exist. I'm assuming you've tried googling?

-Jim Keller
http://www.contextsolutions.net

examancer

If the phone's browser supports javascript i suppose you could write some JS code that could convert letter's to their numeric equivalent.

scambro

jim_keller wrote:
I don't think there's any standard way of doing this, since the implementation would probably differ from phone to phone. It would be interesting to see a DTD or CSS option for mobile devices that allows switching from alpha to numeric, but at the moment I'm under the impression that it doesn't exist. I'm assuming you've tried googling?

-Jim Keller
http://www.contextsolutions.net

Google is usually a programmer's best friend. In my case this is an internal page, so if it only works on windows mobile for my phone, that would be good enough for me. But yes, nothing on Google that I could read through that would acomplish this.

Thanks!

bradgrafelman

examancer might be on to something - do you know if the phones support JS? If so, you could change a-c into 2, d-f into 3, etc.