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HOWTO: Best ways to set a value for an inputmask.

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Robin Herbots edited this page Jul 18, 2014 · 1 revision

This a quick guide for setting a value in the inputmask.

This guide is because lot of people complain about disappearing value on mouseover, or when values are set with other plugins, or autocomplete / autofill etc. And in firefox all works fine but not in some other browser.

The reason is that the inputmask is not aware of the value change as most browsers do not allow for patching the native value property.

Anyway I will try to fix (automate) the value pickup, but in the meanwhile you can do:

  • best choice is just to use the jquery.val fn. This way it will work always.

  • set the value by using the value property and after that trigger the setvalue event

  • if the value is set by another plugin or whatever, just see that you can detect the change and trigger the setvalue event.

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