jQuery Alphanum

jsfiddle demo

$(input).alphanum();

Restricts the characters that may be entered into a text field.

.alphanum();

.alpha();

.numeric();

.alphanum()

Restrict the input to alphanumeric characters

$("#username").alphanum();

Override some of the default settings

$("#username").alphanum({
  allowSpace: false, // Allow the space character
  allowUpper: false  // Allow Upper Case characters
});

Available settings plus their default values

var DEFAULT_SETTINGS_ALPHANUM = {
  allow              : 'abc', // Allow extra characters
  disallow           : 'xyz', // Disallow extra characters
  allowSpace         : true,  // Allow the space character
  allowNewline       : true,  // Allow the newline character \n ascii 10
  allowNumeric       : true,  // Allow digits 0-9
  allowUpper         : true,  // Allow upper case characters
  allowLower         : true,  // Allow lower case characters
  allowCaseless      : true,  // Allow characters that do not have both upper & lower variants
                              // eg Arabic or Chinese
  allowLatin         : true,  // a-z A-Z
  allowOtherCharSets : true,  // eg é, Á, Arabic, Chinese etc
  forceUpper         : false, // Convert lower case characters to upper case
  forceLower         : false, // Convert upper case characters to lower case
  maxLength          : NaN    // eg Max Length
}

Convenience values for commonly used settings

$("#username").alphanum("upper");

is equivalent to

$("#username").alphanum({
  allowNumeric  : false,
  allowUpper    : true,
  allowLower    : false,
  allowCaseless : true
});

List of convenience values

var CONVENIENCE_SETTINGS_ALPHANUM = {
  "alpha"      : {
    allowNumeric : false
  },
  "upper"      : {
    allowNumeric  : false,
    allowUpper    : true,
    allowLower    : false,
    allowCaseless : true
  },
  "lower"      : {
    allowNumeric  : false,
    allowUpper    : false,
    allowLower    : true,
    allowCaseless : true
  }
};

.numeric()

Restrict the input to numeric characters

$("#weight").numeric();

Override some of the default settings

$("#weight").numeric({
  allowMinus   : false,
  allowThouSep : false
});

Available settings plus their default values

var DEFAULT_SETTINGS_NUM = {
  allowPlus           : false, // Allow the + sign
  allowMinus          : true,  // Allow the - sign
  allowThouSep        : true,  // Allow the thousands separator, default is the comma eg 12,000
  allowDecSep         : true,  // Allow the decimal separator, default is the fullstop eg 3.141
  allowLeadingSpaces  : false,
  maxDigits           : NaN,   // The max number of digits
  maxDecimalPlaces    : NaN,   // The max number of decimal places
  maxPreDecimalPlaces : NaN,   // The max number digits before the decimal point
  max                 : NaN,   // The max numeric value allowed
  min                 : NaN    // The min numeric value allowed
}

Convenience values for commonly used settings

$("#age").numeric("integer");

Equivalent to

$("#age").alphanum({
  allowPlus:    false,
  allowMinus:   true,
  allowThouSep: false,
  allowDecSep:  false
});

List of convenience values

var CONVENIENCE_SETTINGS_NUMERIC = {
  "integer"         : {
    allowPlus:    false,
    allowMinus:   true,
    allowThouSep: false,
    allowDecSep:  false
  },
  "positiveInteger" : {
    allowPlus:    false,
    allowMinus:   false,
    allowThouSep: false,
    allowDecSep:  false
  }
};

.alpha()

Restrict the input to alphabetic characters

$("#first_name").alpha();

Equivalent to the convenience option

$("#first_name").alphanum("alpha");

Unbind

To unbind jquery.alphaum from an element

$('input').off('.alphanum');

Blacklist

jquery.alphanum works by maintaining a blacklist of non-alphanumeric characters. There is no whitelist. It is assumed that all unicode characters are permissable unless there is a specific rule that disallows them.

These are the blacklisted characters that are encodable using 7-bit ascii

var blacklist = '!@#$%^&*()+=[]\\\';,/{}|":<>?~`.- _';

These are the blacklisted unicode characters that can't be encoded using 7-bit ascii

var blacklist =
    "\xAC"     // ¬
  + "\u20AC"   // €
  + "\xA3"     // £
  + "\xA6"     // ¦
  ;

The blacklist may be extended or reduced using the 'allow' and 'disallow' settings

$("#password").alphanum({
  allow :    '&,;', // Specify characters to allow
  disallow : 'xyz'  // Specify characters to disallow
});

Internationalization

To change the characters that are used as numeric separators, use the following global method:

$.fn.alphanum.setNumericSeparators({
  thousandsSeparator: " ",
  decimalSeparator: ","
});

Contributing

Developer Setup

Install node.js

# Install grunt
npm install -g grunt-cli

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start the development server:
grunt

The server scans the source code for changes and automatically runs eslint, unit tests and e2e tests.