Right now I have the following code implemented:
$(document).ready(function() {
let maximumFractionDigits = 2;
var valueInput = $("#exampleInput");
const formatNumber = (value) => {
return parseFloat(value.replace(/,/g,'')).toLocaleString('en-US', { maximumFractionDigits });
}
valueInput.on('input', function() {
if (!this.value || (maximumFractionDigits && this.value.endsWith('.'))) {
return
}
$(this).val(formatNumber(this.value));
});
});<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input id="exampleInput" class="form-control" aria-label="Grant Amount" type="text" placeholder="0" name="price" required="">It works fine and does what I want: when the user enters more than 3 digits the thousand comma separator is added and two decimal places are allowed (USD format).
However, if the user enters some number in another charset, for example with a Japanese keyboard, or any unexpected char the following message appears:
'NaN'
Expected outcome:
If the user enters an invalid character, it should not appear in the input (I want to avoid NaN message), for example if I enter 'a' nothing will appear in the input.
What I've tried:
Somehow I tried to use the isNaN function but my approach is definitely wrong.
const formatNumber = (value) => {
if (isNaN(value)){
return 0;
} else{
return parseFloat(value.replace(/,/g,'')).toLocaleString('en-US', { maximumFractionDigits });
}
}
If anyone could help me I would really appreciate it
Well the solution is simple you must check the character right before the input event, which is the keypress event.
valueInput.keypress(
/**
* Handle the keypress event on valueInput.
*
* Used to filter in only the numbers.
*/
function(e) {
var keyCode = e.which
if ((keyCode >= 32 && keyCode <= 43)
|| keyCode == 45
|| keyCode == 47
|| (keyCode >= 58 && keyCode <= 126))
return false
}
);
keyCode is just the ASCII code of the key that is pressed:
, character and 46 is . character)Finally, by returning false when a non-number character is typed in, you basically tell jQuery to refuse it as input. Thus, not firing the input event and your problem is solved.
Firstly, you need to remove all character except number and point,and remove redundant point. Finally, remove parseFloat because parseFloat('')'s value is NaN.
$(document).ready(function() {
let maximumFractionDigits = 2;
var valueInput = $("#exampleInput");
const formatNumber = (value) => {
const parsedValue = value.replace(/[^\d.]/gi, '').replace(/(?<!^[\d-]+)\./g, '');
return parsedValue ? (+parsedValue).toLocaleString('en-US', {
maximumFractionDigits
}) : '';
}
valueInput.on('input', function() {
if (!this.value || (maximumFractionDigits && this.value.endsWith('.'))) {
return
}
$(this).val(formatNumber(this.value));
});
});<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input id="exampleInput" class="form-control" aria-label="Grant Amount" type="text" placeholder="0" name="price" required="">I found a potential solution:
const formatNumber = (value) => {
var result = parseFloat(value.replace(/,/g,'')).toLocaleString('en-US', { maximumFractionDigits });
const withoutCommas = result.replace(/,/g, '');
if (isNaN(withoutCommas)){
return
}
return result;
}
Basically, if after parsing the Float and removing the ',' isNaN=True, then return, if it's a number I can just return the result as expected. Might not be the most elegant solution but it works.