Number-only input field

[mbaluchamy]

Friends,

I’m aware that Axure provides an ‘Number’ input type. However, it comes with a step counter arrows and it also ignores the max length value - both of which is not helpful for my situation.

Is there a way to customise input fields to only accept numbers?

Thanks!
-Mani B

[josephxbrick]

Hi!

Here’s a trick to this that I found a while back.

The text box sets the constraint to a positive integer

Hi! There’s a trick in Axure where you can restrict text entry to any set of characters you choose. You create an OnKeyDown interaction testing for keys. Any keystrokes that cause the condition to return FALSE will be allowed in. So the following will only let in the numbers 0 through 9 (from either the top row or from the number pad) and other keystrokes you need when inside of a field, such as for copy/paste, moving around inside of the field, etc. [image] Here it is so you don’t have to …

[mbaluchamy]

What a nice way to solve this! For some reason, it never occurred to me that writing a condition this way without a body can actually return a value. Thanks Joseph!