Number formatting on edit

[lisaa]

When in edit mode, is there a way to display thousands separators? Number fields don’t take commas so it doesn’t look like we can use a custom field renderer. Perhaps we could create a UI only text field to control the display and then reformat for insert, but that seems like a lot of work to just get a number to display correctly. Does anyone know of a better approach?

[QuinnRyan]

Hey @lisaa,

Looking into this now while I figure out the answer/ solution, have you seen this post:

How do I run a function and re-render a field each time an input field value is changed?

I am assigning this custom snippet to a currency field. My objective is to place commas in the appropriate places as the user is typing. But for now the code is trying to replace the value of 2000 into the field whenever a character is entered into the input. There are two issues I am having with the code below: The change event seems to only activate after I click out of the field. I would actually like this action to re-evaluate the fields value each time a character is entered or deleted. T…

Looks to be similar to what you are trying to do.

Cheers,