Question
Endsleigh
GB
Last activity: 19 Dec 2016 9:17 EST
Limiting Text Box Inpu t
Hi,
I have a TextBox where I am asking a user to input a telephone number. Can anyone help with how I would go about limiting the input to only being 0-9 + ( ) as they are typing, if this is possible?
So far I have used the TextChanged and KeyUp/down events leading into a Regex Match rule and then showing an error if anything other than the stupulated is entered. Issue with this is that when a user can still input anything in the box.
Thanks
Accepted Solution
Pegasystems Inc.
US
You might also try using a MaskedTextBox. It has a mask built-in for phone numbers. It won't allow non-numeric characters to be entered.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
When I am looking for a way to do things like this I just search the web for how you would do it in C#. Here is a question on StackOverFlow that should give you some ideas to try.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1935219/restricting-textbox-input-to-numbers-in-c-sharp
As you can see from this, there are a lot of considerations as you work through this problem.
Blue Rose Technologies GmbH
BE
Hi ,
Please have a look on the below link :
https://snipt.net/GerryEng/jquery-making-textfield-only-accept-numeric-values/
Thanks.
EvonSys
IN
Hi Dave
The property which you are referring there you can Use Edit Validate Rule to validated the the user Input. There is OOTB Rule named "APPPHONENUMBER" Just refer this rule into your Propety (Advance Tab-> Edit Validate) Save it .This will work as you are expecting it accepts 0-9,(),-,+ and wont allow user to enter charecters.
Thanks
Harsh
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
You can configure the text box with an on change-run script action set. In the JS function, you can check the ASCII key of the charecter entered and allow it only if it is 0-9 or +().
Accepted Solution
Pegasystems Inc.
US
You might also try using a MaskedTextBox. It has a mask built-in for phone numbers. It won't allow non-numeric characters to be entered.