Clearing a numeric field gives error when saving [2020:O]

[Brian Lewis]

The cleared value of the field is an empty string - which is a type mismatch when applied to the numeric field at the server.

All empty strings returned from the client - regardless of the data type of the field - should be interpreted as null when saved

[Brian Lewis]

On the other hand, if the input is defined as type=number then we get back a null when clearing the field as expected.

This should perhaps be the preferred way to resolve this?

[Brian Lewis]

IE 11 has issues with input="number", so we should probably not rely on the browser client resolving this?

[Ghislain Hachey]

IE 11 has issues with input="number", so we should probably not rely on the browser client resolving this?

@softwords What exactly is the issue and how does it affect the user?

[Brian Lewis]

Accept that we use <input type = number whenever we have numeric data. This gives the correct result; in particular, null when cleared not '' .

Support now for IE11 vicissitudes not a priority.