Fine-tuning Text Inputs
June 6, 2024
Web forms and inputs support a variety of additional attributes that can provide hints to the browser and improve the user experience of filling out forms online. With the tiniest bit of extra effort, we can make sure our forms help rather than hinder.
Source: Fine-tuning Text Inputs
Forms are still and always will be one of the main ways we interact with web pages and apps. And nearly 2 decades into mobile web, the smartphone text editing experience leaves a lot to be ducking desired.
So we can give our users, who just want to get a job done (sign in, sign up, but something, tell us something) a little helping hand by making the inputs on our pages a bit better adapted to the context. Garrot Dimon rounds up some easy to use attributes for input elements you might consider using.