They had this feature in for OS 1 but removed it at OS 2+ for some
reason.  It is not enabled for OS3 yet, but many people including
myself would love to have this feature.  Apple .... hello...
Bueller ... Bueller ...

There is another solution, to have a javascript number picker (go to
www.vw.com on your iphone and look at the dealer locator).  This is
cool if you have only one field, but if it's a zip code field in a
form with many fields, this creates a multitude of usability issues
including but not limited to:

1.  every text field will automatically popup the keyboard.  you can
close it with javascript by assigning the field to be disabled/
readonly etc, but they keyboard is too quick and pops up and then down
again.  not good.  also, if you want the 'previous next' buttons to
work, the field must be enabled to begin with.  this is key because if
you make them defaulted to disabled/readonly, those buttons will SKIP
the field - as expected.

2.  you can make your custom input a DIV with an onclick func instead,
which solves the keyboard popup problem, but you cannot assign a
tabindex to anything but a text or text area input (despite that you
are supposed to be able to add it to an A HREF, DIV, etc).  this is
problematic due to the 'next previous' buttons that show with the
keyboard.  not being able to assign a tabindex will make those buttons
jump past your custom field.  this is a sub-standard experience and
for me a deal-breaker, I had to just use the normal keyboard on a site
due to this.

Anyone else solve this in another way and have a working example to
share?

cheers, Brent
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