Angular Common - Object Structures - format

This option accepts three types of values:

• String
  One of the predefined formats (see the type option) or a format string. The built-in localization engine supports the following characters. You can specify different formats by repeating these characters.

  Numeric Formats

  Format character	Description
  0	A digit. Displays '0' if it is not specified in the UI.
  #	A digit or nothing. One symbol represents several integer digits, but only one decimal digit. For example, "#.#" represents "123.4", but not "123.45".
  .	A decimal separator. Displayed according to the decimalSeparator or the set locale if you use Intl or Globalize.
  ,	A group separator. Displayed according to the thousandsSeparator or the set locale if you use Intl or Globalize.
  %	The percent sign. Divides the input value by 100. If it is enclosed in single quotes ('%'), it only adds this sign to the input value.
  ;	Separates positive and negative numbers. If there is no explicit negative format, a positive number receives the "-" prefix.
  Other characters	Any character. Should be placed only at the format string's beginning or end. You can use the special characters above as well (in single quotation marks).

  Date-Time Formats

  Format character	Description
  y	A calendar year.
  Q	A quarter number or name. Available combinations with example: "Q" - "2", "QQ" - "02", "QQQ" - "Q2" and "QQQQ" - "2nd quarter".
  M	A month number or name. Available combinations with example: "M" - "9", "MM" - "09", "MMM" - "Sep", "MMMM" - "September", "MMMMM" - "S".
  d	A month day.
  E	A week day name. Available combinations with example: "E", "EE" or "EEE" - "Tue", "EEEE" - "Tuesday", "EEEEE" - "T".
  a	A day period (am or pm).
  h	An hour. From 1 to 12.
  H	An hour. From 0 to 23.
  m	A minute.
  s	A second.
  S	A fractional second.

  NOTE

  Reference the Globalize library in your application to use other numeric or datetime format characters.

• Function
  Specifies a custom format. A shortcut for the formatter option.

• Object
  Allows you to configure the format. Can have one of these two structures:

  // Uses a predefined format
  format: {
      type: String, // one of the predefined formats
      precision: Number, // the precision of values
      currency: String // a specific 3-letter code for the "currency" format
  }

  or

  // Specifies a custom format
  format: {
      formatter: Function, // a custom formatting function
      parser: Function // a parsing function for string values
  }

  If you use Devextreme-Intl, you can specify the Intl NumberFormat's and DateTimeFormat's options parameter fields:

  format: { year: "2-digit", month: "narrow", day: "2-digit" }
  === or ===
  format: { style: "currency", currency: "EUR", useGrouping: true }

  If you use Globalize, you can use the fields accepted by numberFormatter, currencyFormatter, and dateFormatter instead of the fields described in this section. For example, you can use skeletons to format dates. Note that this approach might require additional CLDR modules not shipped with the DevExtreme package.

  format: { skeleton: 'GyMMMd' }

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This option accepts a 3-letter code specified by ISO 4217 for each currency. If you use Intl, just assign the code to this option. If you use Globalize, do the following:

1. Get the currencies.json file that corresponds to your culture from one of the folders here.
2. Load the contents of this file in your app using one of the methods described here.
3. Assign the 3-letter code of the needed currency to this option.

Alternatively, you can assign "default" to this option, in which case, the global default currency is applied.

See Also

• format.precision
• Localization

If none of the predefined formats meet your requirements, use this function to specify a custom format. If formatter is the only field that you need to specify in the format object, assign the function straight to the format option as shown below.

format: function (value) {
    // ...
    return formattedValue;
}

See Also

• format.parser

A widget calls this function internally, for example, when a user enters a value. The following code gives an example of the formatter and parser functions which turns dates into strings, and parses strings back into dates, respectively.

formatter: function (date) {
    var month = date.getMonth() + 1,
        day = date.getDate(),
        year = date.getFullYear();

    return year + "." + month + "." + day;
},
parser: function (e) {
    var parts = e.split("."),
        day = Number(parts[2]),
        month = Number(parts[1] - 1),
        year = Number(parts[0]);

    return new Date(year, month, day);
}

This option applies when the type option has one of the following values.

• 'currency'
• 'fixedPoint'
• 'percent'
• 'decimal'
• 'exponential'
• 'largeNumber'
• 'thousands'
• 'millions'
• 'billions'
• 'trillions'

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You can choose one of the predefined formats, depending on the values you need to format, from the following groups:

Numeric Formats

Date-Time Formats

Currency Formats

• "currency" - "$3.95"*

The "fixedPoint", "decimal" or "currency" format can be paired with the "largeNumber", "thousands", "millions", "billions" or "trillions" format using a space separator, e.g., "fixedPoint thousands".

If the type is the only field you need to specify in the format object, assign the value of this field straight to the format option as shown below.

format: "shortDate"

When using a widget as an ASP.NET MVC Control, you can specify this option using the Format enum. This enum accepts the same values, but they start with an upper-case letter, for example, "fixedPoint" becomes FixedPoint.

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See Also

• format.currency
• format.precision