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Mayur Gupta
Mayur Gupta

Reputation: 1

preventDefault() not woking in Mozilla

I want to avoid entering hypen to be entered in text box. The text box field is for a phone number which is in US format, therefore i am adding -(dash) after 3rd and 6th digit through JQuery which is automatically adding as user enters, but i didn't want user to enter -(dash) manually through keyboard.

$("#someID").keydown(function (e){
if(e.keyCode==189){
    e.preventDefault();
}else{

    var myLength = $(this).val().length;
    var text1=$(this).val();
    if((myLength==3) ){              
        $(this).val($(this).val()+'-');
              }else if(myLength==7){
                  $(this).val($(this).val()+'-');
              }
    }  
});

189 is keycode for -(dash/hyphen)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 158

Answers (2)

Ram
Ram

Reputation: 144729

jQuery normalizes which property and you can use this property instead of keyCode:

if (e.which === 189) {

You can also consider using Masked Input plugin.

Upvotes: 2

Jai
Jai

Reputation: 74738

just change to this:

if(e.keyCode==109){
   //---------^^^------109 is the keycode for hyphen

you can check here: http://www.cambiaresearch.com/articles/15/javascript-char-codes-key-codes

Upvotes: 0

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