Automaticaly capitalising text using Javascript

[Ronan Dowd]

Hi All,

I have a form with an input textfield, called "name". I would like for a user to type into this field his name and for Javascript to automatically capitalize the first letter of his input (once the user tabs or clicks off the textfield)

Would anyone any code samples/links where I could get some javascript to do this.

Thanks in advance - Ro.

[Eric Pascarello]

basic idea:

 
String.prototype.firtstLetterToCap = function(){
  var str = this;
  if(this.length==1)str = this.toUpperCase();
  if(this.length>1)str = this.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + this.substring(1,this.length);
  return str;
}
 
var name = "eric";
nameFixed = name.firtstLetterToCap();
alert(name + "\n" + nameFixed);

Eric

[Eric Pascarello]

oh and

onblur="this.value=this.value.firtstLetterToCap()"

Eric