Active form html5 input types such as email and number

HTML5 text input types are supported in YII2. These types include:

• color
• date
• datetime
• datetime-local
• email
• month
• number
• range
• search
• tel
• time
• url
• week

With YII2 you can specify the input type as this:

This would set the input type to ’email’ which is useful for mobile apps. This will bring up the e-mail keyboard. The number keyboard can also be supported by using input(‘number’).