how to remove previous text when user enter a new number or character and start typing in javascript or jquery

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I have a textbox ,i want whenever user start entering a number in that texbox the previous value should be remove.Let say there is a textbox which contain a number as 23 ,i want whenever user start typing in that same textbox 23 shold be remove and new enetered number should be shown.My...

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1. how to remove previous text when user enter a new number or character and start typing in javascript or jquery

4 Nov 2012Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

To start with, if you are already using jQuery, document.getElementById is not needed, as you can use jQuery selectors:http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/[^].Now the solution: text box is actually the input element with the attribute type="text". For all input elements, its value is...

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2. how to remove previous text when user enter a new number or character and start typing in javascript or jquery

6 Nov 2012deepak.m.shrma

Try this its working fine :-) $(function () { $("#mytext").focus(function () { var keyPressed = false; $("#mytext").keypress(function () { // alert("Handler for .keypress() called."); keyPressed = true; ...

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3. how to remove previous text when user enter a new number or character and start typing in javascript or jquery

4 Nov 2012Al Moje

Hi,Try this if could help...$(document).ready(function() {$("#mytextbox").focus(function() {if($("#mytextbox").val() != "") $("#mytextbox").val(""); });});Do not forget to mark as answer if could help...Regards,

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