The UK Government design team have a blog post on this: https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-design-system-team-changed-the-input-type-for-n

The UK Government design team have a blog post on this: https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-design-system-team-changed-the-input-type-for-numbers/ https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des... > Avoid using inputs with a type of number > Do not use <input type="number"> unless your user research shows that there’s a need for it. With <input type="number"> there’s a risk of users accidentally incrementing a number when they’re trying to do something else - for example, scroll up or down the page. And if the user tries to enter something that’s not a number, there’s no explicit feedback about what they’re doing wrong. (https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/text-input/#numbers https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/text-input/#...)