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How to hide the brackets and hypens in jquery mask on focus

I dont want to display the brackets and hypens in my input field on focus. Jquery mask is defaulting it to the format which ever i am giving. How to hide that default property i.e. () and -., but on blur the brackets and hypens should get displayed.

Tried:

<input id="ssn"/>
$("#ssn").mask("(999)-999-9999");

Demo Link:

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Solution

  • Will this help you out?

    $('#ssn').blur(function() {
   $(this).mask("(999)-999-9999");
});