html.elements.input.input-email - No native error message when writing non-email text
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Description
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When using Firefox browser on an android mobile device, we noticed that when a user writes text that isn't an email in an email input field on a website, there is no native error message on submit, unless the text explicitly has an @ sign. For example, writing test won't give an error, but writing test@test will give an error. We've tested this on iOS browsers and Android browsers, and seems only Firefox's Android browser seems to have this issue. It works perfectly as expected on Firefox iOS.
What did you expect to see?
When writing text that isn't an email in the email input text field, what was expected was to get a native error message on submit. An example:

Did you test this? If so, how?
Tested it in both browser stack and a colleague's Android device, both using Firefox Browser.
MDN page report details
- Query:
html.elements.input.input-email - MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/email
- Report started: 2022-02-09T23:01:58.714Z
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Research direction
Start with the browser-compat-data entry queried as html.elements.input.input-email and review the corresponding MDN input/email page. Reproduce the validation behavior in Firefox for Android and compare it with the existing compatibility data; done means the data accurately records the confirmed browser behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100