--- title: "Getting started with the jSuites Javascript string and number mask" description: "How to create input mask properties on HTML elements using the jSuites javascript mask plugin" source: https://jsuites.net/docs/v4/javascript-mask/getting-started --- The jSuites javascript mask plugin is a lightweight script to force certain accepted formats in HTML input fields. Using the mask plugin, you can easily define Dates, Numbers, Currency, Phone and much other masked strings. Parse programmatically ---------------------- ```html ``` Events ------ The following example show how to alert when the data input is completed. ```html

What is your birthday? dd/mm/yyyy

``` Input mask options ------------------ | Token | Target | | --- | --- | | **a** | Any letter | | **0** | Any Number | | **#.##** | Formatted number | | **#,##** | Formatted number | | **\# ##** | Formatted number | | **yyyy** | Year four digits | | **yy** | Year two digits | | **mm** | Month | | **dd** | Day | | **hh24** | Hour 24 | | **hh** | Hour 12 | | **mi** | Minutes | | **ss** | Seconds | | **\a** | Letter "a" (escape for a) | | **\0** | Number "0" (escape for 0) | | **[-]** | Number signal (- or +) | **NOTE:** All tokens should be lowercase.