How to force numeric keyboard instead of qwerty on IOS?

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Is there a way to force the ios keyboard into the numeric mode when a user gives focus to a text entry field?

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Not at present, though as far as I know the new Form component in 8.3 has modes that hint to the underlying OS appropriately to show the 'correct' keyboard. a quick look at the manual suggests this hasn't (yet?) landed

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It’s possible to do this but the method is a bit hacky, and I haven’t looked into it enough to see if there are any big drawbacks.

You can create a Markdown component with escapeHtml: false and source: <input type=”tel”>, then give it an event script for onKeyDown that looks something like this:

def runAction(self, event):
	if event.keyCode == 8:
		self.view.custom.numbers = self.view.custom.numbers[:-1]
	elif event.keyCode in range(48, 58):
		self.view.custom.numbers += event.key

In this example I’m writing to a custom property I made to store the input, since input with the Markdown component is weird (and probably not intended to be a thing). You would have to tweak this to work better with your constraints and be sure to sanitize the input.

Honestly, I would probably recommend against doing this, but I thought it would be fun to share.

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