Comment by spankalee

From the article: and spec:

> The output element represents the result of a calculation performed by the application, or the result of a user action.

<output> is for changing content. It's the ARIA semantics that matter. The content gets announced after page updates.

You can put whatever you want inside the <output> to represent the type. "text" is the default. You can represent dates and times with the <time> element. And while there is currently no specific number formatting element, since Intl has arrived there have been many requests for this.

For example:

    <output>The new date is <time datetime="2025-10-11">Oct 11</time></output>

IOW, <output> should not have to handle all these types when it handles HTML and HTML needs to represent the types anyway.