How do I Capitalize First Letter of Each Word of a Field?

rhett1 · ‎04-13-2016

Is there a way that I can have an end-user enter a sentence into a normal string field and that each first letter of each word is made to be uppercase?

For example:

Risk no governance impacts the business.

TO:

Risk No Governance Impacts the Business.

rhett1 · ‎04-19-2016

WORKING Enhanced version that ignores capitalizing articles of the title:

function onChange(control, oldValue, newValue, isLoading, isTemplate) {
if (isLoading || newValue == '') {
return;
}

var myText = newValue;
var myTextInTitleCase = toTitleCase(myText);
g_form.setValue('risk_name',myTextInTitleCase);

function toTitleCase(e){
var t=/^(a|an|and|as|at|but|by|en|for|if|in|of|on|or|the|to|vs?\.?|via)$/i;return e.replace(/([^\W_]+[^\s-]*) */g,
function(e,n,r,i){
return r>0&&r+n.length!==i.length&&n.search(t)>-1&&i.charAt(r-2)!==":"&&i.charAt(r-1).search(/[^\s-]/)<0?e.toLowerCase():n.substr(1).search(/[A-Z]|\../)>-1?e:e.charAt(0).toUpperCase()+e.substr(1)
}
)};
}

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poyntzj · ‎04-13-2016

Once the user has entered their data, run it via this function and then replace the value

function toTitleCase(str) { return str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function(txt){return txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase();}); }

rhett1 · ‎04-13-2016

Thank you Julian. Should this be a client script, a script include or something else?

LearnerSubho · ‎04-14-2016

Hello Julian,

What is "/\w\S*/g" in the script? Please explain.

Thanks,

Subhankar

Robert Beeman · ‎04-18-2016

Hello Subhankar,

That is regex. Its meaning is:

/\w\S*/g

\w match any word character [a-zA-Z0-9_]
\S* match any non-white space character [^\r\n\t\f ]Quantifier: * Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed [greedy]
g modifier: global. All matches (don't return on first match)

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