there are actually several variants of keyboards on all devices (not just numeric or alphanumeric). the phone entry keyboard is different, and there are a coupl

there are actually several variants of keyboards on all devices (not just numeric or alphanumeric). the phone entry keyboard is different, and there are a couple others. it's not just iOS. to make the right one pop up in ios you have to do stuff like pattern=[0-9]*, but that becomes restrictive, too. http://blog.pamelafox.org/2012/05/triggering-numeric-keyboards-with-html5.html http://blog.pamelafox.org/2012/05/triggering-numeric-keyboar...