Originally reported by luison99 on #1541838: Update number element to match what is not in 8.x core., default numberfields don't allow decimal numbers.

I had to go to elements_validate_number() to find out that '#step' needs to be 'any' for this to work, but elements_element_info() sets '#step' to 1 by default. This is unintuitive, and probably ought to be documented better.

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This seems almost like a bug. The code does check for 'any' but there is no way to configure this value as you mentioned.

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As per MDN Allowing Decimal Values, the front end validation requires step values to be set to allow decimal values to pass browser validation. The backend check in elements_valid_number_step() works effectively identically.

Attached, patch with updated readme.