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The phone one is poor usability. Why is the text indicator half way through the input when it inserts text at the beginning?

I agree, I will rework this part. The main challenge was support for IE on this one.

Also on the phone part, it falls down if the phone number has an extension.

I would work on a way to have the formatting decorators (parentheses, dashes etc) only show up if there is data past that point.

So you could include " x" in the event that someone types in an extension or something like that.

Properly parsing/formatting phone numbers is harder than you'd think..

How do you specify the mask for different numbering schemes (other regions/countries)?

Do you pick one dynamically based on the selected country? Do you have that database of masks-to-country?

What if my contact number is international or foreign (even if I pick my country as USA)? Do you let the user select a mask? That feels clunky and more work than just leaving the phone number free-form..

It also allows you to paste any text in, and it will no longer match the mask.

The phone field would be amazing to have polished, and I think you'd see a lot of adoption for just this field.

It doesn't work with a numpad either. Seems terribly broken overall.

It also fails on UK phone numbers, because it assumes a London-style number.

And the number pad doesn't work.

Otherwise, I like it though.

+1 on this. I thought it didn't work at all since I was using the Num pad for the phone number then realized numeric keys work.

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