Help users to understand when it's appropriate to use input type="number"

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What

Help users to understand when it's appropriate to use input type="number".

Why

We have a lot of research that shows that input type="number" can be problematic and we believe that it should only be used in very specific contexts.

Stories

• Add guidance to the text input component to help users understand when to use input type="number" Add guidance to the text input component to help users understand when to use input type="number" #1128
• Consider renaming the 'text input' component to just 'input' in the Design System Consider renaming the 'text input' component to just 'input' in the Design System #1129
• Write a blog post that covers the changes to the date input component, some of the detail about strange behaviour seen in research (usability and accessibility), bugs we've reported Write a blog post that covers the research done around input type="number" and the changes made #1130

Related

• Improve the date input component Improve the date input component govuk-frontend#1695