Vue Common - Object Structures - format

Formats values.

Type:

String

|

Function

|

Object

Function parameters:
value:

Number

|

Date

The value to be formatted.

Return Value:

String

The value after formatting.

Default Value: undefined
Accepted Values: 'billions' | 'currency' | 'day' | 'decimal' | 'exponential' | 'fixedPoint' | 'largeNumber' | 'longDate' | 'longTime' | 'millions' | 'millisecond' | 'month' | 'monthAndDay' | 'monthAndYear' | 'percent' | 'quarter' | 'quarterAndYear' | 'shortDate' | 'shortTime' | 'thousands' | 'trillions' | 'year' | 'dayOfWeek' | 'hour' | 'longDateLongTime' | 'minute' | 'second' | 'shortDateShortTime'

This property accepts three types of values:

  • String
    A predefined format or custom format string.

  • Function
    Applies a custom format to a value and returns this value as a string. A shortcut for the formatter property.

  • Object
    Allows you to configure the format. Can have one of the following 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
    }

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

    format: { skeleton: 'GyMMMd' }

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currency

Specifies a 3-letter ISO 4217 code for currency. Applies only if the type is "currency".

Type:

String

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formatter

A function that converts numeric or date-time values to a string.

Type:

Function

Function parameters:
value:

Number

|

Date

The value to be formatted.

Return Value:

String

The value after formatting.

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 property as shown below.

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

Parses string values into numeric or date-time values. Can be used with formatter or one of the predefined formats.

Type:

Function

Function parameters:
value:

String

The string value to be parsed.

Return Value:

Number

|

Date

The value after parsing.

A UI component 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.

JavaScript
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);
}

precision

Specifies a precision for values of a numeric format.

Type:

Number

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

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

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type

Specifies a predefined format. Does not apply if you have specified the formatter function.

Type:

String

Accepted Values: 'billions' | 'currency' | 'day' | 'decimal' | 'exponential' | 'fixedPoint' | 'largeNumber' | 'longDate' | 'longTime' | 'millions' | 'millisecond' | 'month' | 'monthAndDay' | 'monthAndYear' | 'percent' | 'quarter' | 'quarterAndYear' | 'shortDate' | 'shortTime' | 'thousands' | 'trillions' | 'year' | 'dayOfWeek' | 'hour' | 'longDateLongTime' | 'minute' | 'second' | 'shortDateShortTime'

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

Numeric Formats

  • "fixedPoint" - 100.11 → 100
  • "percent" - 0.1 → 10%
  • "decimal" - 100.11 → 100
  • "exponential" - 1 000 → 1E+3
  • "thousands" - 1 000.11 → 1K
  • "millions" - 1 000 000.11 → 1M
  • "billions" - 1 000 000 000.11 → 1B
  • "trillions" - 1 000 000 000 000 → 1T
  • "largeNumber"*
  • uses "thousands", "millions", "billions", "trillions"* format depending on the actual value

Currency Formats

  • "currency" - "$3.95"*
  • to define any other currency, use currency
NOTE
Specify the precision to show fractional numbers.

Date-Time Formats

  • "longDate" - "Thursday, January 01, 1970"
  • "longTime" - "12:00:00 AM"
  • "longDateLongTime" - "Thursday, January 01, 1970, 12:00:00 AM"
  • "monthAndDay" - "January 01"
  • "monthAndYear" - "1970 January"
  • "quarterAndYear" - "QI 1970"
  • "shortDate" - "1/25/1970"
  • "shortTime" - "12:00 AM"
  • "shortDateShortTime" - "1/25/1970, 12:00 AM"
  • "millisecond" - "010"
  • "second" - "00"
  • "minute" - "00"
  • "hour" - "12"
  • "day" - "01"
  • "dayOfWeek" - "Thursday"
  • "month" - "January"
  • "quarter" - "QI"
  • "year" - "1970"

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 property as shown below.

JavaScript
format: "shortDate"

When using a UI component as an ASP.NET MVC 5 Control or a DevExtreme-Based ASP.NET Core Control, you can specify this property 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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