Prevent leading spaces on form inputs

Wappler General Need Help
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I have a situation where users are adding a space to the beginning of a text field in order to have the entry come up first when sorted alphabetically.

Is there a way to force the first character in an input to be an actual letter or character?

2

Maybe you can just trim whitespace on the server side when storing the value?

3

Hmmm, but wouldn’t that trim all spaces in the entry? I need to allow spaces, just not as a first character.

4

I believe the trim formatter should only remove white space from the beginning/end of a string.

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That would be great, I will experiment. Just gotta figure out how to do it :wink:

Thanks Teodor :beers:

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Just apply the formatter to the $_POST.var expression in the insert record step.

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Worked like a charm and I discovered a couple other very useful formatters such as Strip Tags in the process.

Thank you again, Teodor.

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I want to do this client-side, does anyone know how to do this once the input is no longer focused?

Edit: Ok, found a way, I’ve added a Dynamic Event “On submit” to the form element, and there I set the value of the input field to the value itself with .trim()

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You can use on blur event for the input:

dmx-on:blur="text1.setValue(value.trim())"
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