Text Entry For Dates With Slashes?

[bdwise]

I have a textbox in a form, and I need to allow users to enter dates
in US Format (MM/DD/YYYY). But they do not want to type any slashes,
just 8 numbers, and have the slashes added for them.

What is the best way to do that?

Thanks.

[Jeff Thies]

"bdwise" <br************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I have a textbox in a form, and I need to allow users to enter dates
in US Format (MM/DD/YYYY). But they do not want to type any slashes,
just 8 numbers, and have the slashes added for them.
This is fairly trivial to do server side. Where it would have to be done
anyways!

Pick your server side language and ask there.

Jeff

What is the best way to do that?

Thanks.

[kaeli]

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br************@hotmail.com enlightened us with...

I have a textbox in a form, and I need to allow users to enter dates
in US Format (MM/DD/YYYY). But they do not want to type any slashes,
just 8 numbers, and have the slashes added for them.

What is the best way to do that?

Thanks.

Well, you can modify my code that takes a mm/dd/yy and makes it into
mm/dd/yyyy if you like.

You'll still have to do it server-side, too, unless you are certain ALL
your users use script and that they can't submit the form with script
turned off. This assumes an intranet environment.

Let me know if you want to see my code. It's NN6+/IE5+ (and DOM object
compatible) only for my intranet app.

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[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <59**************************@posting.google.com >, seen
in news:comp.lang.javascript, bdwise <br************@hotmail.com> posted
at Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:48:02 :-

I have a textbox in a form, and I need to allow users to enter dates
in US Format (MM/DD/YYYY). But they do not want to type any slashes,
just 8 numbers, and have the slashes added for them.

Evidently you did not read the FAQ with sufficient care. The following
will do the job for UK dates.

S = S.replace(/(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d{4})/, "$1/$2/$3")

The following will convert un-punctuated UK dates to ISO-8601

S = S.replace(/(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d{4})/, "$3-$2-$1")

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[bdwise]

Thanks, Dr. Stockton. There is nothing in the FAQ about having
slashes added for the users as they type. I have started to play with
the onKeyDown event and such, and have not had any luck so far. I
need to trap the 3rd and 5th keystroke if unless it's a backspace or
left arrow and add the slash, etc. It appears that the FAQ deals with
formatting dates with slashes after a user has typed a value.

I apologize, my original post was not clear enough.

Dr John Stockton <sp**@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<VD**************@merlyn.demon.co.uk>...

JRS: In article <59**************************@posting.google.com >, seen
in news:comp.lang.javascript, bdwise <br************@hotmail.com> posted
at Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:48:02 :-

I have a textbox in a form, and I need to allow users to enter dates
in US Format (MM/DD/YYYY). But they do not want to type any slashes,
just 8 numbers, and have the slashes added for them.

Evidently you did not read the FAQ with sufficient care. The following
will do the job for UK dates.

S = S.replace(/(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d{4})/, "$1/$2/$3")

The following will convert un-punctuated UK dates to ISO-8601

S = S.replace(/(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d{4})/, "$3-$2-$1")