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Masking input text for phone #, date, etc.

843835Dec 25 2001 — edited Nov 4 2009

Hi All,

This may not be related to jsp, but since I am using it, I decided to post here.

I have a jsp page which is basically a form to enter some database data.

What I would like is to force the user to enter correct data such as phone number, fax number, date, using a mask in the input type = "text" name = ...
eg.
phone (03)9876-1234
phone: (xx)yyyy-zzzz

The same applies for date:
DD/MM/YYYY

Can we somehow initialise the value of the text with brackets and dashes, so the user is forced to enter the data in a pre-format

When the user presses submit, I capture the value of the text using request.getParameter(...

Thanks in advance for any help

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