How to handle floats and decimal separators with html5 input type number

Question

Im building web app which is mainly for mobile browsers. Im using input fields with number type, so (most) mobile browsers invokes only number keyboard for better user exper

Answer 1

Use valueAsNumber instead of .val().

input . valueAsNumber [ = value ]

Returns a number representing the form control's value, if applicable; otherwise, returns null.
Can be set, to change the value.
Throws an INVALID_STATE_ERR exception if the control is neither date- or time-based nor numeric.