Why a value of an input type number is a string and not a number?

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I am wrong or if I take with javascript the value of an input type number it will be a string and not a number?

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Because HTML doesn’t have data types. This question of forms having a type is for browsers to work better with the information of each form type.

As for the type number <input type="number" ...>, That’s only for cell phones, smartphones display the number pad at the time of typing.

Everything that comes out of the DOM is mapped as string.

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