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

When you call $("#my_input").val(); it returns as string variable. So use parseFloat and parseIntfor converting. When you use parseFloat your desktop or phone ITSELF understands the meaning of variable.

And plus you can convert a float to string by using toFixed which has an argument the count of digits as below:

var i = 0.011;
var ss = i.toFixed(2); //It returns 0.01