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What is the best way to get telephone numbers formatted upon entry?

Is there a telephone custom field extension, as there are for other formatted fields?

If not, what is EE convention? Multiple fields for each part? (Not very appealing.)

seajay, there is no built-in way to validate or otherwise format the data on input. Having said hat, an extension and some javascript should be able to do that, but it’d be a custom soltuion.

Thanks. I thought that might be the case, but didn’t find a thread about either of those options, and was hoping ...

Since I’m not skilled to that degree, I guess you can close this thread. Sigh.

If you use a custom entry field for the telephone number you can style it using CSS.

Create a custom field, ie {telephone_number}, and set the field formatting to “none”

Add the tag to your template surrounded by an approriate HTML tag

{telephone_number}

Now add a class and a style…

{telephone_number}

.telephone-number {font-weight: bold; color: #FF9900;}

I was thinking about formatting, rather than styling.

For example, in the Control Panel, I would like to require people to enter as ...

+x-xxx-xxx-xxxx

... where X is a digit. Or, automatically rewriting a number into that format. Or another one.

But, this is not a showstopper. The thread can be closed.

Your best bet is javascript. If you’re using the SAEF you could do it that way, if you use the backend, or want to check upon submission you’d need an etxension.

As Ingmar says if you are using the SAEF then you could use some Javascript with it such as this one or this one or this or this or this.

Don’t know if any of those are any good?

Best wishes,

Mark

Thank you!

No problem. There are some really nifty Javascript solutions going around at the moment for this type of thing.

Let us know how you get on.

Best wishes,

Mark