- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:53:34 +0200
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Dean Edwards wrote: > >>whilst we're talking about numbers... >>a common scenario in web apps is to have a separate format for >>displaying numbers (e.g. currencies). The user enters "19" but after >>tabbing to the next field this is then displayed as "$19.00". focus/blur >>events are usually used to format/unformat the underlying value. is it >>too late to formalise something like this by introducing a "format" >>attribute? i could have really used it on the last project i worked on. > > > We could do that; could you propose some text? I'm not familiar with the > requirements. > > Would it just be: > > format="$%02.2d" > > ...? Where that's basically a subset of the printf format specifier > functionality? For numbers, you'd just want to either append or prepend a unit identifier. You *don't* want to reformat the number itself like that; you'd lose the locale settings, and then I might enter one-thousand-fifty instead of one-and-a-half. ~fantasai -- http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/contact
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