I am using Angular 4. I want to allow the zipCode
input field to only take an input of length 5 or 7 digits.
HTML code:
<md-input-container class="fill-width-input-wrap">
<input mdInput placeholder="Zip Code" formControlName="zipCode" minLength="5" maxLength="7" (keypress)="allowOnlyNumbers($event)" required>
<md-error *ngIf="clientInformationForm.controls['zipCode'].hasError('required')">
Please enter
<strong>valid zipcode</strong>
</md-error>
<md-error *ngIf="clientInformationForm.controls['zipCode'].hasError('minLength')">
zip code
<strong>minimum length is 5</strong>
</md-error>
</md-input-container>
I guess you want pattern
attribute
<input mdInput formControlName="zipCode"
minLength="5" maxLength="7"
pattern="zipPattern"
(keypress)="allowOnlyNumbers($event)"
required>
<md-error *ngIf="clientInformationForm.controls['zipCode'].hasError('pattern')">
zip code must satisfy pattern
</md-error>
...
Where zipPattern
is something like ^\d{5}(?:\d{2})?$
:
const pattern = new RegExp(/^\d{5}(?:\d{2})?$/)
'1234'.match(pattern) // null
'12345'.match(pattern) // ["12345"
'123456'.match(pattern) // null
'1234567'.match(pattern) // ["1234567"
'12345678'.match(pattern) // null