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I just added this behavior because I verified it works the same across different browsers. Could you please give more information on where they behave differently?

Unfortunately it does not have an option to disable such behavior, but a patch is welcome.

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Thanks for the quick reply.

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. My concern is not the behavior Chrome (HTML 5) vs FF (HTML 5), my problem is the behavior HTML 5 vs not HTML 5. I use Chrome (with HTML 5) and FF (without), so in Chrome I cannot submit the form with an invalid email, in FF I can. So I now have to maintain HTML 5 form behavior and 'normal' behavior, which isn't really attractive.

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Why would you have to maintain two behaviors? On the server side, you should always assume the normal behavior, i.e. the user can send an invalid e-mail.

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in Chrome, I simply cannot submit the Email address, no message what's invalid. I don't know if I can customize the behavior, but I also don't want to customize it. In a normal case the form is submitted, the error message is rendered and the user gets the same response for every browser.
Of course, I always have to check on the server side if the input is valid.

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Woah, this sounds more like a Chrome buggy. In any case, I see what you mean. Feel free to provide a patch with tests and I will apply it. :)

In case you are wondering, here are the two places where we use HTML5:

http://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form/blob/master/lib/simple_form/inputs/string_input.rb#L12
http://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form/blob/master/lib/simple_form/inputs/numeric_input.rb#L10

You just need to skip setting the type, because the non HTML5 default will be set inside text_field.

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Probably it is a Chrome bug, since Chrome isn't very stable on the Mac.
When I was looking at the code to provide a patch, I realized that there is a much simpler way to achieve this:

<%= f.input :email, :input_html => {:type => "text"} %>

does exactly what I need.

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I guess you could use also something like:

<%= f.input :email, :as => :string %>

Please give it a try.

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