Number Formatting (input mask) in jQuery

Question

I'm trying to format numbers in a text field like so:

123,456,789

I know that there are a lot of jQuery plugins to do this, however, they all change the actual value. I just want it to look formatted, and not be sent formatted.

For example, if I type in 23845 into my text field, I want it to visually convert to 23,845, but when I send the form I want it to send as 23845.

Does anyone know how I can achieve this? All other solutions I've seen change the actual submitted value.

Answer 1

AFAIK, the masks plugin do not change the value but only the display : http://plugins.jquery.com/plugin-tags/mask

[edit] within the list of all the plugins, i've used this one on my code : https://github.com/RobinHerbots/jquery.inputmask ([edit 2] and worked as you want i've checked the code where i used it and the default behavior is that it sends the mask with the value, you need to use an option to unmask as i've said in my comment)