Question

I am being frustrated by a regular expression to mask the input field. I want to Limit input to hh:mm AM|PM format and I can’t get this regex to work.

I use this regex in conjunction with a jquery tool from www.ThimbleOpenSource.com. It was the filter_input.js tool or whatever.

It seems to work for a simple regular expression but the one I came up with doesn’t seem to work. This is my jsFiddle test link below.

jsFiddle

Answer 1

I have made a jsfiddle example, based on the regular expression of the answer von Yuri:
http://jsfiddle.net/Evaqk/

$('#test1, #test2').blur(function(){
    var validTime = $(this).val().match(/^(0?[1-9]|1[012])(:[0-5]\d) [APap][mM]$/);
    if (!validTime) {
        $(this).val('').focus().css('background', '#fdd');
    } else {
        $(this).css('background', 'transparent');
    }
});