[Sigia-l] Cross posting: Phone number layout

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"Jenn Coonce" wrote:

> Why even three fields for the phone number? Should there just be one field
> or is there a good reason for having three? If three, then which is
> preferable? Jumping automatically or waiting for the user to move the
> cursor?

One field and let the users enter the number whichever way they want: with
no spaces, spaces, hyphens, dots, parens, etc. You can easily clean that up
a) as soon as they leave that field (with JavaScript regex) or b) at the
server end. This way, you can handle any format and any length.

Ziya
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