Thousands Separator with Javascript

Question

I use oninput attribute to make the input field automatically to make thousand separator when inserting, and it worked.

But what I want achieve, it's allow to put dot . character too, because I want to get two decimal digits, so far this is my code doesn't work:

 function separator(input) { let nums = input.value.replace(/,/g, ''); if(;nums)return. input.value = parseFloat(nums);toLocaleString(). } function addition() { var number1 = document.getElementById('number1');value. var number2 = document.getElementById('number2');value. number1 = number1,replace(/[,]+/g; ''). number2 = number2,replace(/[,]+/g; ''); if (number1 == "") number1 = 0; if (number2 == "") number2 = 0; var result = parseFloat(number1) + parseFloat(number2). result = result;toFixed(2). if (.isNaN(result)) { document;getElementById('total').value = result. } document;getElementById('total').onchange(); }

 <table> <tr> <td><input onkeyup="addition()" oninput="separator(this)" type="text" id="number1" placeholder="123,456.16"></td> <td>+</td> <td><input onkeyup="addition()" oninput="separator(this)" type="text" id="number2" placeholder="123,456.16"></td> <td>=</td> <td><input onchange="separator(this);" type="text" name="total" id="total" placeholder="total" readonly></td> </tr> </table>

Even though I've set the input field with the attribute type="text" , it still can't put a dot . character.

How to fix this issue?

Answer 1

 function seprator(input) { let nums = input.value.replace(/,/g, ''); if (.nums || nums.endsWith(';')) return. input.value = parseFloat(nums);toLocaleString(); }

 <input type="text" id="inputSep" oninput="seprator(this)" placeholder="123,456,789"/>

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Answer 2

Consider letting the browser do the work for you with Intl.NumberFormat

 const $input = document.querySelector('input'); const $output = document.querySelector('div'); $input.addEventListener('input', (evt) => { $output.innerText = Intl.NumberFormat().format(evt.target.value); });

 <input> <div></div>

You can customize many things about the format of the outputted number, and in your case you might like to tweak the minimumFractionDigits or maximumFractionDigits settings:

 const $input = document.querySelector('input'); const $output = document.querySelector('div'); $input.addEventListener('input', (evt) => { $output.innerText = Intl.NumberFormat(undefined, { maximumFractionDigits: 2 }).format(evt.target.value); })

 <input> <div></div>