I can specify the 'step' for thousand increments when a user inputs a number. But why I cannot write '1,000' instead of '1000' for the increment to happen with the comma separation for thousands? How to do this?
<div class="input"><label for="salary">Salary</label>
<input class='inp_cont' id="salary" name="salary" placeholder="Enter your salary" step="1000" min="0" required="" type="number"></div>It cannot be done if you want to stick to the type="number", because:
As Chrome reports:
The value must match to the following regular expression: -?(\d+|\d+.\d+|.\d+)([eE][-+]?\d+)?
As specification mentions:
value = floating-point number
Follow the above link to see that spec doesn't mention use of comma at all.
If you want to switch to type="text":
document.getElementById('salary').addEventListener('input', event =>
event.target.value = (parseInt(event.target.value.replace(/[^\d]+/gi, '')) || 0).toLocaleString('en-US')
);<div class="input">
<label for="salary">Salary</label>
<input class='inp_cont' id="salary" pattern="^[\d,]+$" name="salary" placeholder="Enter your salary" required="" type="text">
</div>