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WAI-ARIA APG Spinbutton Pattern

Defines spinbutton as a discrete range input with current value, optional increase and decrease controls, direct text editing, arrow keys, Home, End, optional Page Up and Page Down, aria-valuemin, aria-valuemax, aria-valuenow, aria-valuetext, labeling, and invalid state.

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Spinbutton / numeric stepper Choose a spinbutton for one bounded numeric value that changes in predictable increments. Increment and decrement controls change the value by the declared step and stop at the lower and upper bounds. APG defines spinbutton as a discrete range input with direct editing, increase and decrease behavior, keyboard movement, value properties, labeling, and invalid state.

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Publisher: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. Last checked: .

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