AngularJS and AngularUI: mask or format a phone number when binding

Question

I am using AngularUI to format or "masking" a phone number input, and it works fine with a ng-model:

<input ng-model="emer.phone" ui-mask="{{'[phone]'}}" type="text"/>

Question: But now how can I apply the same mask in the same way using ng-bind, I have something like this:

<td>{{emer.phone}}</td>

My problem: The ng-model and ng-bind are in two different files in different locations, therefor the use of "$viewValue" is not an option for me

Any idea?

some documentation about AngularUI mask: http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-utils/

Thanks!

Bevin

Answer 1

You should use ui-mask="[phone]" instead of ui-mask="{{'[phone]'}}".

The latter tries to bind to a model with '[phone]' on it.

Mejias

Answer 2

SO far I couldn't find a simple solution using AngularUI mask, so I had to create a filter. I follow this: Format telephone and credit card numbers in AngularJS

And here is the jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/jorgecas99/S7aSj/

angular.module('ng').filter('tel', function () {
    return function (tel) {
        if (!tel) { return ''; }

        var value = tel.toString().trim().replace(/^\+/, '');
        ...

Cheers!

Bevin

Answer 3

Instead of making your own masking or perhaps building your own directive you can make use of existing solutions.

Take tel.js for example. It is an input[tel] directive that formats and validates international phone numbers for you.

You can install it from bower like this:

bower install teljs --save

Then:

1. Link the two script files found in the 'src' folder: tel.js and metadatalite.js.

   <script src="bower_components/teljs/src/tel.js"></script>
   <script src="bower_components/teljs/src/metadatalite.js"></script>
   

2. Load the tel.js module.

   angular.module('<your module>', ['teljs']);
   

You can try out tel.js here:

http://michaelkrog.github.io/tel.js/

Remark: I am the developer of tel.js.

Corinecorinna

Answer 4

I can see in the ui-mask demo, they cheat a bit and use the $viewValue from ngModelController.

So, you could try the same thing.

First, you must add a name to your input field and be wrapped in a form (with a name):

<form name="demo">
    <input name="emerPhone" ng-model="emer.phone" ui-mask="{{'[phone]'}}" type="text"/>
    <td>{{demo.emerPhone.$viewValue}}</td>
</form>

As you can see from the above example, the display code becomes:

<td>{{demo.emerPhone.$viewValue}}</td>

It would have been better if they would have provided a filter as well, though.

Also, I can see that in the demo for ui-mask, they show and hide based on the length of the $viewValue:

<div ng-show="demo.masked.$viewValue.length">NgModelController.$viewValue: <code>{{ demo.masked.$viewValue
              }}</code></div>
            <div ng-hide="demo.masked.$viewValue.length">NgModelController.$viewValue: <code>undefined</code></div>

Hope this helps.

Cofferdam

Hi @Davin, thanks for your comment :)... unfortunately I can use it in that way because my ng-model and ng-bind are in two different views and different files, therefor the $viewValue id not available :(. Id there any other option for me? – Bevin

With ui-mask there doesn't seem to be any other option. You may have to write your own filter. – Cofferdam

typo: "unfortunately I can't* use it" – Bevin

Answer 5

Find Plunker for Formatting Credit Card Numbers using angularjs directive. Format Card Numbers in xxxxxxxxxxxx3456 Fromat.

    angular.module('myApp', [])

   .directive('maskInput', function() {
    return {
            require: "ngModel",
            restrict: "AE",
            scope: {
                ngModel: '=',
             },
            link: function(scope, elem, attrs) {
                var orig = scope.ngModel;
                var edited = orig;
                scope.ngModel = edited.slice(4).replace(/\d/g, 'x') + edited.slice(-4);

                elem.bind("blur", function() {
                    var temp;
                    orig  = elem.val();
                    temp = elem.val();
                    elem.val(temp.slice(4).replace(/\d/g, 'x') + temp.slice(-4));
                });

                elem.bind("focus", function() {
                    elem.val(orig);
               });  
            }
       };
   })
  .controller('myCtrl', ['$scope', '$interval', function($scope, $interval) {
    $scope.creditCardNumber = "1234567890123456";
  }]);

Joella