Title: type="email"
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# type="email"

 *  [christianoliff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovememore/)
 * (@lovememore)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/typeemail/)
 * There are text input fields within WordPress with type=”text”, I’d like to suggest
   that they instead use type=”email” so the correct keyboard is displayed on some
   mobile devices and also the form field can be validated in modern web browsers.
   This is a standard HTML5 feature and is backwards compatible (older versions 
   of IE simply treat it as type=”text”.

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 * Last reply from: [christianoliff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovememore/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/typeemail/)
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