On 5 Mar 2012, at 18:12, Jim Giner wrote: >>> Okay - here's the scoop - although this is not the forum for it. >>> >>> Ipads and Iphones respect an html input tag's type="number" attribute >>> in >>> order to trigger the device's different keyboard configurations. This >>> is a >>> neat trick that I found on a couple of apple-related sites and has been >>> >>> working fine. I just now removed that from my code that generates the >>> html >>> and Voila - problem gone. Apparently Safari has been modified recently >>> is >>> my guess. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> What format was your date in? It was my understanding that only numerical >> characters with a preceeeding sign and decimal point was allowed? I would >> expect a date to be in the form dd/mm/yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy (allowing for >> swapping months and days of course) but neither is a valid number. >> >> Thanks, >> Ash >> http://ashleysheridan.co.uk > > My entry is valid - mm/dd/yyyy. Works great on teh ipad, not the iphone I might be wrong, but I think Ash was actually asking why the hell a date field had that type attribute set to number. That's just messed up!! -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/