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HTML5 New Input Types
HTML5 has several new input types for forms. These new features allow for better input control and validation.
This chapter covers the new input types:
- email
- url
- number
- range
- Date pickers (date, month, week, time, datetime, datetime-local)
- search
- color
Browser Support
| Input type |
IE |
Firefox |
Opera |
Chrome |
Safari |
| email | No | No | 9.0 | No | No |
| url | No | No | 9.0 | No | No |
| number | No | No | 9.0 | No | No |
| range | No | No | 9.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| Date pickers | No | No | 9.0 | No | No |
| search | No | No | No | No | No |
| color | No | No | No | No | No |
Note: Opera has the best support for the new input types. However, you can already start using them in all major browsers. If they are not supported, they will be behave as regular text fields.
