[thelist] Telephone Number Format for the Many Different Countries
David Dorward
evolt at david.us-lot.org
Thu Jun 26 11:35:07 CDT 2003
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:05:05 -0400, Gregory J Toland wrote:
> Does anyone know of or have good a good example of a web form displaying
> telephone fields that would change based on the chosen country from a
> dropdown list? For example, if United States was selected then the
> format would be (xxx) xxx-xxxxx. However, if Ireland was selected then
> the format would be ??????
There are lots of countries, and even within a single country there is
often variance in styles of number, not to mention styles changing
(such as most UK numbers gaining an extra digit on the area code a few
years ago). Additionally, users don't like using multiple fields for
single bits of data.
The best option is generally to leave it free form, possibly with a
seperate field for the international dialing code.
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