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Vortilion
Vortilion

Reputation: 424

jQuery's maskedinput

I want to limit an html input field to an input like

Name 1 & Name 2,

so that the user can only type in two names in the format

e.g. "Steven & Peter" or "Alex & Jennifer".

I tried it with jQuery "maskedinput" and

$('.picName').mask('aaaaaaaa & aaaaaaaa');

but here the user has to input EXACTLY 8 characters per name, but I want it to set to MAX. 8 characters per name. Does anybody know if that's possible with maskedinput?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10224

Answers (2)

orolo
orolo

Reputation: 3951

It appears that you can define your own regex inputs: from: http://digitalbush.com/2008/12/08/masked-input-plugin-12/

You should now add custom mask definitions by "$.mask.definitions[char]=regex;"

So, with some regex you can do somthing like this: from: http://www.regular-expressions.info/repeat.html

You could use \b[1-9][0-9]{3}\b to match a number between 1000 and 9999. \b[1-9][0-9]{2,4}\b matches a number between 100 and 99999. Notice the use of the word boundaries.

Upvotes: 1

Jeffrey
Jeffrey

Reputation: 2005

Try this:

$('.picName').mask('aaaaaaaa & aaaa?aaaa');

Everything behind the question mark will be optional.

Source: Last example on the plugin page: http://digitalbush.com/projects/masked-input-plugin/

Upvotes: 0

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