Maxlength Ignored for Input Type="Number" in Chrome

maxlength ignored for input type=number in Chrome

From MDN's documentation for <input>

If the value of the type attribute is text, email, search, password, tel, or url, this attribute specifies the maximum number of characters (in Unicode code points) that the user can enter; for other control types, it is ignored.

So maxlength is ignored on <input type="number"> by design.

Depending on your needs, you can use the min and max attributes as inon suggested in his/her answer (NB: this will only define a constrained range, not the actual character length of the value, though -9999 to 9999 will cover all 0-4 digit numbers), or you can use a regular text input and enforce validation on the field with the new pattern attribute:

<input type="text" pattern="\d*" maxlength="4">

HTML maxlength attribute not working on chrome and safari?

Use the max attribute for inputs of type="number". It will specify the highest possible number that you may insert

  <input type="number" max="999" />

if you add both a max and a min value you can specify the range of allowed values:

  <input type="number" min="1" max="999" />

See this example

EDIT

If, for user experience, you would prefer the user not to be able to enter more than a certain number, use Javascript/jQuery, as seen in this example

How can I set max-length in an HTML5 input type=number element?

And you can add a max attribute that will specify the highest possible number that you may insert

<input type="number" max="999" />

if you add both a max and a min value you can specify the range of allowed values:

<input type="number" min="1" max="999" />

The above will still not stop a user from manually entering a value outside of the specified range. Instead he will be displayed a popup telling him to enter a value within this range upon submitting the form as shown in this screenshot:

Maxlength for input type number

If you want a maximum of 5 digits in the number, you can use the largest 5 digit number and set that as the max attribute for the input:

<input type="number" max="99999" />

The above will only maximize the number to 99999, but will not disallow input of more than 5 characters. This can't be done with HTML alone.

It can, though, be done with JavaScript. For example:

<input oninput="javascript: if (this.value.length > this.maxLength) this.value = this.value.slice(0, this.maxLength);"
    type="number"
    maxlength="5"
 />

All the code above does is, oninput, it checks the number of characters in the input, and if that is exceeding the number of characters specified in maxlength, it deletes the character.

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Source: maxlength ignored for input type="number" in Chrome

How to set maximum length in input type=number?

max attribue specifies the maximum possible value that we can specify.

for more details see this link

I think the following will be helpful to you,

//maxlength="10"
<input type="number" onKeyPress="if(this.value.length==10) return false;" />

why is input type=number maxlength=3 not working in Safari?

I've accomplished it with:

<input class="required" id="field" type="text" maxlength="3" pattern="([0-9]|[0-9]|[0-9])" name="cvv"/>

and then in JavaScript I prevented the letters:

$("#myField").keyup(function() {
    $("#myField").val(this.value.match(/[0-9]*/));
});

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