Richard, You'll need to do some JavaScript magic to accomplish that. There are some widgets and jQuery plugins out there that seem to fit the bill:
http://digitalbush.com/projects/masked-input-plugin/ (jQuery plugin) http://jquery-plugins.net/tag/masked-input (a list of jQuery plugins) http://jasny.github.io/bootstrap/javascript/#inputmask (Bootstrap plugin) -Carl V. On 2/25/2014 12:13 PM, Richard White wrote: > Hi, > > This is not really a CF question but rather seeking general code advise. > > I want to create a textfield using ExtJS and would like the user only to have > access to alter parts of the text... > > For example, I want to populate the textfield with 'CP - - U' > When the user clicks on this textfield I want the cursor to start blinking > next to the P (in the position of the empty space). Then as the user types I > would like the textfield to replace the empty spaces. When they get to a dash > it automatically skips the dash and keeps typing where the next underline is. > > Is there a special kind of textfield or formatting that can be used to > achieve this? > > Many thanks for any advise. > Richard > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:357762 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
