Text input

In Onsen UI text input is provided by the <ons-input> tag. It works exactly like the normal <input> tag but with some small differences.

Just like the normal input tag you can use the type attribute to define what kind of input that should be displayed. To get an number input you can use the number type:

<ons-input
  type="number"
  placeholder="Age"
  min="0"
  max="200">
</ons-input>

You can also use types like number or date. The only exception are checkboxes and radio buttons, which are implemented in different elements.

Any valid HTML attribute for inputs should work in ons-input (required, max, etc.).

Floating label

For Android devices the input will displayed as a Material Design input element. One of the features of this input is that it can have a floating label which will animated when the user starts typing. Try changing the style to Android to see how it works.

The label is defined with the placeholder attribute and to activate the animation the float attribute is required.

<ons-input placeholder="Username" float></ons-input>

Inner input element

For normal input elements is possible to define a <label> tab with the for attribute to link it to an input element.

Unfortunately this does not work with custom elements like <ons-label> so in order to do it we need to set the id attribute of the inner input element. This is done using the input-id attribute.

<label for="username">Username</label>
<ons-input input-id="username"></ons-input>

This work with any input in Onsen UI such as checkboxes, radios, etc.