Disable webkit's spin buttons on input type=“number”?

206
votes

I have a site which is primarily for mobile users but desktop too.

On Mobile Safari, using <input type="number"> works great because it brings up the numerical keyboard on input fields which should only contain numbers.

In Chrome and Safari however, using number inputs displays spin buttons at the right side of the field, which looks like crap in my design. I really don't need the buttons, because they are useless when you need to write something like a 6-digit number anyway.

Is it possible to disable this with -webkit-appearance or some other CSS trick? I have tried without much luck.

5
csshtmlwebkit
If you prefer to use type="text" for other reasons and only switched to number for the numerical keyboard feature, you can use pattern="[0-9]*" to get the keyboard feature, allowing you to retain type="text". See stackoverflow.com/questions/6171903/… – joshuahedlund

5 Answers

117
votes

The below css works for both Chrome and Firefox

input[type=number]::-webkit-outer-spin-button,
input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    margin: 0;
}

input[type=number] {
    -moz-appearance:textfield;
}
285
votes

I discovered that there is a second portion of the answer to this.

The first portion helped me, but I still had a space to the right of my type=number input. I had zeroed out the margin on the input, but apparently I had to zero out the margin on the spinner as well.

This fixed it:

input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button,
input[type=number]::-webkit-outer-spin-button {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    margin: 0;
}
16
votes

Not sure if this is the best way to do it, but this makes the spinners disappear on Chrome 8.0.552.5 dev:

input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
}
11
votes

It seems impossible to prevent spinners from appearing in Opera. As a temporary workaround, you can make room for the spinners. As far as I can tell, the following CSS adds just enough padding, only in Opera:

noindex:-o-prefocus,
input[type=number] {
    padding-right: 1.2em;
}
-2
votes

You can also hide spinner with following trick :

input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button,
input[type=number]::-webkit-outer-spin-button {
  opacity:0;
  pointer-events:none;
}