Merge pull request #16548 from woocommerce/fix/16524

Swap to text input for tax rate %, and format as decimal.

includes/admin/settings/views/html-settings-tax.php

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
 		</td>
 
 		<td class="rate">
-			<input type="number" step="any" min="0" value="{{ data.tax_rate }}" placeholder="0" name="tax_rate[{{ data.tax_rate_id }}]" data-attribute="tax_rate" />
+			<input type="text" value="{{ data.tax_rate }}" placeholder="0" name="tax_rate[{{ data.tax_rate_id }}]" data-attribute="tax_rate" />
 		</td>
 
 		<td class="name">

includes/class-wc-ajax.php

@@ -2209,6 +2209,9 @@ class WC_AJAX {
 				'tax_rate_order'    => 1,
 			) );
 
+			// Format the rate.
+			$tax_rate['tax_rate'] = wc_format_decimal( $tax_rate['tax_rate'] );
+
 			if ( isset( $data['newRow'] ) ) {
 				// Hurrah, shiny and new!
 				$tax_rate['tax_rate_class'] = $current_class;