text-mask-addons

What is text-mask-addons?

The text-mask-addons npm package provides a set of useful add-ons for the text-mask library, which is used to create input masks for form fields. These add-ons include pre-defined masks for common input types such as phone numbers, email addresses, and dates.

What are text-mask-addons's main functionalities?

createNumberMask

The createNumberMask function allows you to create a mask for numeric inputs. This is useful for formatting currency, percentages, or any other numerical input.

const createNumberMask = require('text-mask-addons/dist/createNumberMask');
const numberMask = createNumberMask({
  prefix: '$',
  suffix: '',
  includeThousandsSeparator: true,
  thousandsSeparatorSymbol: ',',
  allowDecimal: true,
  decimalSymbol: '.',
  decimalLimit: 2,
  integerLimit: 7,
  allowNegative: false,
  allowLeadingZeroes: false
});

emailMask

The emailMask is a pre-defined mask for email addresses. It ensures that the input follows the general structure of an email address.

const emailMask = require('text-mask-addons/dist/emailMask');
const maskedInput = emailMask;

createAutoCorrectedDatePipe

The createAutoCorrectedDatePipe function creates a pipe that auto-corrects date input as the user types. This is useful for ensuring that dates are entered in a valid format.

const createAutoCorrectedDatePipe = require('text-mask-addons/dist/createAutoCorrectedDatePipe');
const autoCorrectedDatePipe = createAutoCorrectedDatePipe('mm/dd/yyyy');

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README

Text Mask Addons

These addons are ready-to-use pipes and masks that can be used with Text Mask.

Installation

npm i text-mask-addons --save

Masks

These can be passed as a mask to Text Mask.

createNumberMask

createNumberMask returns a numberMask function that will format user input as currency. createNumberMask accepts an object with the following keys:

1. prefix (string): what to display before the amount. Defaults to '$'.
2. suffix (string): what to display after the amount. Defaults to empty string.
3. includeThousandsSeparator (boolean): whether or not to separate thousands. Defaults to to true.
4. thousandsSeparatorSymbol (string): character with which to separate thousands. Default to ','.
5. allowDecimal (boolean): whether or not to allow the user to enter a fraction with the amount. Default to false.
6. decimalSymbol (string): character that will act as a decimal point. Defaults to '.'
7. decimalLimit (number): how many digits to allow after the decimal. Defaults to 2
8. integerLimit (number): limit the length of the integer number. Defaults to null for unlimited
9. requireDecimal (boolean): whether or not to always include a decimal point and placeholder for decimal digits after the integer. Defaults to false.
10. allowNegative (boolean): whether or not to allow negative numbers. Defaults to false
11. allowLeadingZeroes (boolean): whether or not to allow leading zeroes. Defaults to false

Usage

import createNumberMask from 'text-mask-addons/dist/createNumberMask'

// First, you need to create the `numberMask` with your desired configurations
const numberMask = createNumberMask({
  prefix: '',
  suffix: ' $' // This will put the dollar sign at the end, with a space.
})

// ...then pass `numberMask` to the Text Mask component as the mask

emailMask

emailMask formats user input as an email address.

Usage

import emailMask from 'text-mask-addons/dist/emailMask'

// ...then pass `emailMask` to the Text Mask component as the mask

Technical side note: even though emailMask is passed as a mask, it is actually made of both a mask and a pipe bundled together for convenience. The Text Mask component knows how to unwrap and separate the pipe and mask functions to use them.

Pipes

These functions here can be passed as a pipe to Text Mask.

createAutoCorrectedDatePipe

The createAutoCorrectedDatePipe returns a autoCorrectedDatePipe, which can help the user in entering a date.

For example, if the user enters a value larger than 1 in the 1st slot of month, it appends 0 to it. That is 4 => 04. It does a similar thing for the day slots.

It also blocks the user from entering invalid days or months such as 33/44.

For createAutoCorrectedDatePipe to work properly, the Text Mask component needs to be configured with keepCharPositions set to true.

Usage

import createAutoCorrectedDatePipe from 'text-mask-addons/dist/createAutoCorrectedDatePipe'

const autoCorrectedDatePipe = createAutoCorrectedDatePipe('mm/dd/yyyy')
// As you can see in the line above, you can pass a string argument to `createAutoCorrectedDatePipe` 
// to give it the order of day, month, and year in your `mask`.

// ...now you can pass `autoCorrectedDatePipe` to the Text Mask component as the `pipe`