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Formatting Phone Number Input In Angular


I have seen many solutions to formatting a phone number input field in Angularjs, but I cannot find anything on Angular 7. What I essentially want is for the user to type the following in the textfield:

123456789

and for the textfield to format the input as:

(123) 456-789

how can I go about doing this? I have found the following regex to validate it:

^(\([0-9]{3}\) |[0-9]{3}-)[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$

Solution

  • You can handle this with a Phone Mask Directive as follows,

    export class PhoneMaskDirective {
    
      constructor(public ngControl: NgControl) { }
    
      @HostListener('ngModelChange', ['$event'])
      onModelChange(event) {
        this.onInputChange(event, false);
      }
    
      @HostListener('keydown.backspace', ['$event'])
      keydownBackspace(event) {
        this.onInputChange(event.target.value, true);
      }
    
    
      onInputChange(event, backspace) {
        let newVal = event.replace(/\D/g, '');
        if (backspace && newVal.length <= 6) {
          newVal = newVal.substring(0, newVal.length - 1);
        }
        if (newVal.length === 0) {
          newVal = '';
        } else if (newVal.length <= 3) {
          newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})/, '($1)');
        } else if (newVal.length <= 6) {
          newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})(\d{0,3})/, '($1) $2');
        } else if (newVal.length <= 10) {
          newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})(\d{0,3})(\d{0,4})/, '($1) $2-$3');
        } else {
          newVal = newVal.substring(0, 10);
          newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})(\d{0,3})(\d{0,4})/, '($1) $2-$3');
        }
        this.ngControl.valueAccessor.writeValue(newVal);
      }
    }
    

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