jQuery mask plugin translation set default value?

Question

I'm using jQuery-Mask-Plugin to mask a time input.

I've configured it like so:

$('#time').mask('99r00', {translation: { 'r': { pattern: /[\.,:]/ }}});

With this mask the user can input the following legal times:

21:00
21.00
21,00
,30

This almost works like I want it but there is one thing that I want to achieve for the user:

If the user inputs 2100 I want to mask it to 21:00. So it needs to know the default character is :.
The mask doesn't know which character in the pattern he needs to put in there and disabled further typing.

So how to set a default character for the translation option?

Thanks.

fiddle

Answer 1

I have modified the plugin by adding a custom option to translation called defaults. Demo.

//getMasked: function
//... lines 298 - 302
else if (translation.defaults) {
    buf[addMethod](translation.defaults);
    m += offset;
    v -= offset;
}    
//...                                                                        

$('#timetrans').mask('99r00', {translation: { 
          'r': { pattern: /[:,\\.]/, defaults: ':'}}});