Merge pull request #361 from halkyon/formfield_doc_changes

MINOR Documentation on EmailField type attribute change

docs/en/changelogs/3.0.0.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   * Image/Link insertion moved into a modal dialog instead of a sidebar
   * "Add pages" dropdown moved to a more descriptive modal dialog
  * Renaming of sapphire to SilverStripe framework
+ * FormField classes now have their own HTML templates
  * Allow usage of SilverStripe framework without the "cms" module
  * CMS JavaScript moved to [jQuery.entwine](https://github.com/hafriedlander/jquery.entwine)
  * CMS stylesheets are generated by SCSS to provide more flexible and robust styling
@@ -385,6 +386,16 @@ its no longer possible to set the following optional attributes via constructor
 and `$folderName` (for `FileField` and `SimpleImageField`).
 Please use the appropriate setters on the form field instance instead.
 
+### EmailField now uses type "email" instead of type "text" [email-form-field] ###
+
+EmailField now uses "email" for the `type` attribute, which integrates better with HTML5 features like
+form validation in the browser.
+
+If you want to change this back to "text", use `setAttribute()` when constructing the field:
+
+	$field = new EmailField('Email');
+	$field->setAttribute('type', 'text');
+
 ### Restructured files and folders [file-restructure]###
 
 In order to make the SilverStripe framework useable without the `cms` module,

forms/FormField.php

@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ class FormField extends RequestHandler {
 	/**
 	 * Set an HTML attribute on the field element, mostly an <input> tag.
 	 * 
-	 * Some attributes are best set through more specialized methods, to avoid interfereing with built-in behaviour:
+	 * Some attributes are best set through more specialized methods, to avoid interfering with built-in behaviour:
 	 * - 'class': {@link addExtraClass()}
 	 * - 'title': {@link setDescription()}
 	 * - 'value': {@link setValue}