[Solved] Allow Thousands Separator on Entry

[Adam]

Is there a way to easily enable the Numeric and Currency text boxes to allow the thousands separator to be entered when typing in the field?  By default it only allows digits and the decimal separator but not the thousands separator.  It works fine when pasting in a value with the separators but not when typing and our application has a requirement to allow the user to enter in the separator while typing.  I just wanted to know before I go and work with the javascript to support it.

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Adam,

As you emphasize, typing thousand separators is not allowed by design. In general you will need to override keydown and keypress event handlers and implement the required behavior by yourself. This will not be an easy task. Give it a try and let me know I can be of a further help.

Kind regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team

[Adam]

That is what I figured.  Thanks for the information.  I was able to implement some minor changes to the _keydown, _keypress and _value functions to add the support for it.  Too bad this isn't just a setting that can be set on the control.