I have a phone number input that I am trying to get the dashes to appear in the number as the user types.
I am wanting the number to appear as 555-555-5555.
The function works for the most part, but the dashes aren't entered until after the whole number is entered. I am using the keyup function, which I thought would solve this, but no luck.
Does anyone have any recommendations as to what I have to do to get the dashes to be entered as the user types in the digits?
$('#phone').keyup(function() {
$(this).val($(this).val().replace(/(\d{3})\-?(\d{3})\-?(\d{4})/,'$1-$2-$3'))
});<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
<label class="contact-label">Phone Number:</label>
<input type="tel" class="contact_input" name="phone" id="phone">
</div>I modified your code slightly to produce something that I think is a little easier to read, but still does the job.
I just evaluated the length of the <input /> tag's value on each .keyup() event and then augmented the value accordingly. Take a look at the snippet below:
--UPDATE--
After comments regarding backspacing issues I added a couple lines of code that seem to fix the issue:
First I checked for either backspace or delete .keyup() events to prevent the formatting code from interfering with correcting errors in the number.
I also added a few checks, and a global formatFlag variable to ensure that if the user backspaces to an awkward index like 3 or 6(where hyphens would normally be added), that formatting would resume as normal on the next .keyup() event.
let formatFlag = false;
$(function(){
$('#phone').keyup(function(evt) {
let modifiedValue = $(this).val().replace(/-/g, "");
if(evt.keyCode == 8 || evt.keyCode == 46) { //8 == backspace; 46 == delete
//Checks whether the user backspaced to a hyphen index
if(modifiedValue.length === 3 || modifiedValue.length === 6) {
//Checks whether there is already a hyphen
if($(this).val().charAt($(this).val().length - 1) !== '-') {
formatFlag = true; //Sets the format flag so that hyphen is appended on next keyup()
} else {
return false; //Hyphen already present, no formatting necessary
}
} else {
formatFlag = false;
}
return false; //Return if backspace or delete is pressed to avoid awkward formatting
}
if(!!formatFlag) {
// This re-formats the number after the formatFlag has been set,
// appending a hyphen to the second last position in the string
$(this).val($(this).val().slice(0, $(this).val().length - 1) + '-' +
$(this).val().slice($(this).val().length - 1));
formatFlag = false; //Reset the formatFlag
}
if(modifiedValue.length % 3 == 0) {
if(modifiedValue.length === 0 || modifiedValue.length >= 9){
return false;
} else {
$(this).val($(this).val() + '-');
return;
}
}
});
});<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
<label class="contact-label">Phone Number:</label>
<input type="tel" class="contact_input" name="phone" id="phone" />
</div>