If you've got control over the back end, you could do the upper case transform on the server side...but like I said. I think you've got it as stripped down as you can get it.
-----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of jckos Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12:36 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: Better way to trim whitespace from input? Thanks. I can't use CSS because it doesn't actually submit the value as uppercase, which is what I need. On May 13, 1:03 pm, "Andy Matthews" <li...@commadelimited.com> wrote: > Well, you could try using a text transform CSS attribute on the text field. > Then you wouldn't have to perform a toUpperCase using JavaScript. But > other than that, looks about as lean as you can get it. > > andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] > On > > Behalf Of jckos > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:53 AM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Better way to trim whitespace from input? > > Hi, > > I need to transform all characters entered in an input field to > uppercase and trim trailing whitespace. This script works, but I'm > wondering if there's a better way to do it. > > <script> > $(document).ready(function(){ > $("input").keyup(function (e) { > $("#couponCode").val($(this).val().toUpperCase()); > }); > $("button").click(function () { > var couponCode = $("#couponCode").val(); > couponCode = jQuery.trim(couponCode); > }); > }); > </script> > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance.
