HTML input type=“number” still returning a string when accessed from javascript

Answer 1

1. HTML Input elements are documented to return string representing a number. See the documentation here : Documentation of HTML Input

2. When you set input type="number" then these input field don't accept non numeric input but at the same time it doesn't make the input value type "number". The reason is inputted number contain digits as a subset of the valid characters, but they also contain completely non-numeric characters like spaces, hyphens and parenthesis.