How can I limit possible inputs in a HTML5 “number” element?

Question

For element, maxlength is not working. How can I restrict the maxlength for that number element?

Answer 1

Another option is to just add a listener for anything with the maxlength attribute and add the slice value to that. Assuming the user doesn't want to use a function inside every event related to the input. Here's a code snippet. Ignore the CSS and HTML code, the JavaScript is what matters.

// Reusable Function to Enforce MaxLength
function enforce_maxlength(event) {
  var t = event.target;
  if (t.hasAttribute('maxlength')) {
    t.value = t.value.slice(0, t.getAttribute('maxlength'));
  }
}

// Global Listener for anything with an maxlength attribute.
// I put the listener on the body, put it on whatever.
document.body.addEventListener('input', enforce_maxlength);

label { margin: 10px; font-size: 16px; display: block }
input { margin: 0 10px 10px; padding: 5px; font-size: 24px; width: 100px }
span { margin: 0 10px 10px; display: block; font-size: 12px; color: #666 }

Text Input

set to 5 maxlength




Number Input

set to 2 maxlength, min 0 and max 99