Can I hide the HTML5 number input’s spin box?
This CSS effectively hides the spin-button for webkit browsers (have tested it in Chrome 7.0.517.44 and Safari Version 5.0.2 (6533.18.5)):
input::-webkit-outer-spin-button,
input::-webkit-inner-spin-button {
/* display: none; <- Crashes Chrome on hover */
-webkit-appearance: none;
margin: 0; /* <-- Apparently some margin are still there even though it's hidden */
}
input[type=number] {
-moz-appearance:textfield; /* Firefox */
}
<input type="number" step="0.01" />
You can always use the inspector (webkit, possibly Firebug for Firefox) to look for matched CSS properties for the elements you are interested in, look for Pseudo elements. This image shows results for an input element type="number":
Firefox 29 currently adds support for number elements, so here's a snippet for hiding the spinners in webkit and moz based browsers:
input[type='number'] {
-moz-appearance:textfield;
}
input::-webkit-outer-spin-button,
input::-webkit-inner-spin-button {
-webkit-appearance: none;
}
<input id="test" type="number">
Short answer:
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;
}
<input type="number" />
Longer answer:
To add to existing answer...
Firefox:
In current versions of Firefox, the (user agent) default value of the -moz-appearance
property on these elements is number-input
. Changing that to the value textfield
effectively removes the spinner.
input[type="number"] {
-moz-appearance: textfield;
}
In some cases, you may want the spinner to be hidden initially, and then appear on hover/focus. (This is currently the default behavior in Chrome). If so, you can use the following:
input[type="number"] {
-moz-appearance: textfield;
}
input[type="number"]:hover,
input[type="number"]:focus {
-moz-appearance: number-input;
}
<input type="number"/>
Chrome:
In current versions of Chrome, the (user agent) default value of the -webkit-appearance
property on these elements is already textfield
. In order to remove the spinner, the -webkit-appearance
property's value needs to be changed to none
on the ::-webkit-outer-spin-button
/::-webkit-inner-spin-button
pseudo classes (it is -webkit-appearance: inner-spin-button
by default).
input[type="number"]::-webkit-outer-spin-button,
input[type="number"]::-webkit-inner-spin-button {
-webkit-appearance: none;
margin: 0;
}
<input type="number" />
It's worth pointing out that margin: 0
is used to remove the margin in older versions of Chrome.
Currently, as of writing this, here is the default user agent styling on the 'inner-spin-button' pseudo class:
input::-webkit-inner-spin-button {
-webkit-appearance: inner-spin-button;
display: inline-block;
cursor: default;
flex: 0 0 auto;
align-self: stretch;
-webkit-user-select: none;
opacity: 0;
pointer-events: none;
-webkit-user-modify: read-only;
}