How do you limit type of characters entered in form field.

[conputerguy99]

i.e: Only allow numbers in zip codes.

[Charles]

<label>Zip code<input onmouseup="this.value = this.value.replace(/\D/g, '')" type="text"></label>

That'll work in I.E and Firefox.

[BigMoosie]

Might wanna try onkeyup instead of onmouseup.

[Charles]

Oops.

But I'll have to post a comment over on the W3C's XHTML 2.0 developnment forum. Onmouseup might be a useful handler.

[BigMoosie]

What do you mean? It already is an event handler: [link].

[Charles]

I was thinking about a handler for when the mouse moves vertically.

[BigMoosie]

That is easy enough to detect for with some simple mathematics...

But about that code you posted, that can be annoying if trying to press left to change the first characters, this is much less obtrusive:

<label>Zip code<input onkeyup="var v=this.value.replace(/\D/g, ''); if (this.value!=v) this.value=v" type="text"></label>

Charles, I don't know regexp so could you please post the same regexp but for allowing numbers and the "-" sign?

[Charles]

<label>Zip code<input onkeyup="var v=this.value.replace(/[^\d\-]/g, ''); if (this.value!=v) this.value=v" type="text"></label>