How to setup phone input field masks for your region/country

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How to setup phone input field masks for your region/country

Phone input field masks for better formatting

When you setup your profile fields and want to format phone fields, you can either allow them to enter their phone numbers in way they like, or you can add a phone input mask to automatically format the number based on a predefined template.

Without a mask, you start to get this kind of thing:

  • 1-555-435-2205
  • 355-2366
  • 977 344 2345
  • etc.

This becomes very messy and hard to follow because there’s no standard format. Input masks will prevent this and standardize your inputs.

Input Mask Basics

The format is easy to use. All you do is create a phone format using “9” to represent any digit and any other characters such as “( ) -” to use as separators.

Mask examples:

  • (999) 999-9999 = (977) 533-1253
  • (99) 99-99-9999 = (43) 36-55-4511
  • 9-999-999 = 1-333-6511


RegisterONE allows you to add custom masks to your phone input fields any way you like.

To add your own mask format for your country, go to Forms>Settings>Customize Fields. You can edit an existing field or create new ones.

From Forms>Options>Custom Fields, click Create to add a field or edit an existing field.

Select the Phone field type and fill in the details of your input field. The mask will always default to the US format.

Add your field along with the phone format mask you wish to use.

Once you save your phone field, you’ll see that the phone field will follow the format you setup.

Your fields will follow the mask format you specified.

That’s all there is to it!

Input Field Mask Pitfalls

There could be certain situations where you don’t want to add a field mask. This could be the case if your applicants are entering different formats of phone numbers and there’s no way to tell which one to use. If this is the case, you may want to leave the mask field blank and let them enter as many digits as they need.

International Phone Mask Formats

Argentina 999 9999-9999
Australia (99) 9999 9999
Austria 9999 999999
Belgium 99 999 99 99
Brazil (99) 9999-9999
Bulgaria 99 999 9999
Canada (999) 999-9999
Colombia (9) 9999999
Croatia 99 9999 999
Cyprus 99 999999
Czech Republic 999 999 999
Czech Republic 999 999 999
Denmark 99 99 99 99
Dominican Republic (999) 999-9999
El Salvador 9999 9999
Estonia 999 9999
Finland 99 99999999
France 99 99 99 99 99
Germany 999 99999999
Greece 99 9999 9999
Hong Kong 9999 9999
Hungary (9) 999 9999
Ireland (99) 999 9999
Israel 999-999-9999
Italy 99 9999 9999
Japan 99-9999-9999
Latvia 99 999 999
Lithuania (9-9) 999 9999
Luxembourg 99 99 99 99
Malaysia 99-9999 9999
Malta 9999 9999
Mexico 99 99 9999 9999
Netherlands 999 999 9999
New Zealand 99-999 9999
Norway 99 99 99 99
Panama 999-9999
Peru (99) 9999999
Poland 99 999 99 99
Portugal 999 999 999
Puerto Rico (999) 999-9999
Romania 999 999 9999
Singapore 9999 9999
Slovakia 99/999 999 99
Slovenia (99) 999 99 99
South Africa 999 999 9999
South Korea 99-9999-9999
Spain 999 99 99 99
Sweden 99-999 999 99
Switzerland 999 999 99 99
Taiwan, Province of China 99 9999 9999
United Kingdom 999 9999 9999
United States (999) 999-999

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