Can I hide the HTML5 number input’s spin box?

Question

Is there a consistent way across browsers to hide the new spin boxes that some browsers (such as Chrome) render for HTML input of type number? I am looking for a CSS or JavaScript method to prevent the up/down arrows from appearing.

<input id="test" type="number">

Answer 1

According to Apple’s user experience coding guide for mobile Safari, you can use the following to display a numeric keyboard in the iPhone browser:

<input type="text" pattern="[0-9]*" />

A pattern of \d* will also work.

Answer 2

Try using input type="tel" instead. It pops up a keyboard with numbers, and it doesn’t show spin boxes. It requires no JavaScript or CSS or plugins or anything else.

Answer 3

Not what you asked for, but I do this because of a focus bug in WebKit with spinboxes:

// temporary fix for focus bug with webkit input type=number ui
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("AppleWebKit") > -1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Mobile") == -1)
{
    var els = document.querySelectorAll("input[type=number]");
    for (var el in els)
        el.type = "text";
}

It might give you an idea to help with what you need.

Answer 4

Firefox 29 currently adds support for number elements, so here's a snippet for hiding the spinners in webkit and moz based browsers:

input[type='number'] {
    -moz-appearance:textfield;
}

input::-webkit-outer-spin-button,
input::-webkit-inner-spin-button {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
}

<input id="test" type="number">

Answer 5

input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button, 
input[type=number]::-webkit-outer-spin-button {
     -webkit-appearance: none;

<input id="test" type="number">

Answer 6

I've encountered this problem with a input[type="datetime-local"], which is similar to this problem.

And I've found a way to overcome this kind of problems.

First, you must turn on chrome's shadow-root feature by "DevTools -> Settings -> General -> Elements -> Show user agent shadow DOM"

Then you can see all shadowed DOM elements, for example, for <input type="number">, the full element with shadowed DOM is:

<input type="number">
  <div id="text-field-container" pseudo="-webkit-textfield-decoration-container">
    <div id="editing-view-port">
      <div id="inner-editor"></div>
    </div>
    <div pseudo="-webkit-inner-spin-button" id="spin"></div>
  </div>
</input>

And according to these info, you can draft some CSS to hide unwanted elements, just as @Josh said.