Special Types

• Used for working with handhelds
• Used to enhance input validation
• type=“email”, “url”, “tel”,”number”

• <label type=“tel” id=“phone” placeholder=“xxx-xxx-xxxx”
• pattern=”[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}”>
• </label>

• An example of how a special type works is: If a email type is used and the user is on a iphone the @ symbol will appear on their primary keyboard