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State of HTML 2023

Forms

Form-related elements and attributes

Forms Experience & Sentiment

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1

19,980
2

20,332
3

20,499
4

20,233
5

3.3%
20,072
6

3.6%
19,829
7

3.1%
19,958

Experience

  • Used it: Respondents who have used an item.
  • Heard of it: Respondents who have heard about an item, but haven't used it.
  • Never heard of it: Respondents who have never heard about an item.

Sentiment

  • Positive: Respondents who are interested in learning more about a technology; or are willing to use it again.
  • Neutral: Responents who did not indicate any sentiment about a technology.
  • Negative: Respondents who are not interested in learning more about a technology; or have used it and had a negative experience.
“Used” average:1%
“Positive” average:1%
“Negative” average:0.2%

Input Types

0%
19%
38%
57%
76%
95%
1

<input type="number">

18,991
2

<input type="email">

17,864
3

<input type="file">

17,619
4

<input type="date">

16,783
5

<input type="tel">

14,016
6

<input type="range">

13,698
7

<input type="time">

11,218
8

<input type="url">

10,086
9

<input type="color">

9,374
10

<input type="datetime-local">

4,893
11

<input type="month">

3,653
12

<input type="week">

3,050
13

🚫 None

245
0%
19%
38%
57%
76%
95%
% of question respondents
19,992
96%
Which input types have you used?

Form Validation

0%
19%
37%
56%
74%
93%
1

required attribute

18,365
2

pattern attribute

11,375
3

:invalid/:valid CSS pseudo-classes

10,628
4

invalid event

4,965
5

input.checkValidity()

3,965
6

input.setCustomValidity()

2,555
7

input.reportValidity()

1,821
8

🚫 None

1,078
0%
19%
37%
56%
74%
93%
% of question respondents
19,765
95%
Which of the following form validation features have you used?

Form Pain Points

Think of the various form controls (e.g. <input>, <textarea>, <select>, <button> etc.), behaviors (e.g. validation, autocomplete), handling forms via JS, editing APIs (e.g. contentEditable) etc. Anything that bothers you is fair game — browser support, missing features, styling, etc.

0%
18%
36%
54%
72%
90%
1

Styling & customization

2

<select>

3

Validation

4

Browser support

5

<input type="date">

6

<input type="date">

7

<input type="number">

8

Accessibility

9

autocomplete="hint"

10

<textarea>

11

Other Answers

Answers matching “Other Answers” 6,066
0%
18%
36%
54%
72%
90%
% of question respondents
6,695
32%
What are your pain points around HTML forms?
(freeform question)

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