add commas to a number in jQuery

Question

I have these numbers

10999 and 8094 and 456

And all i want to do is add a comma in the right place if it needs it so it looks like this

10,999 and 8,094 and 456

These are all within a p tag like this <p class="points">10999</p> etc.

Can it be done?

I've attempted it here with the help of other posts http://jsfiddle.net/pdWTU/1/ but can't seem to get it to work

Thanks

Jamie

UPDATE

Messed around a bit and managed to figure it out here http://jsfiddle.net/W5jwY/1/

Going to look at the new Globalization plugin for a better way of doing it

Thanks

Jamie

Answer 1

Number(10000).toLocaleString('en');  // "10,000"

Answer 2

Take a look at Numeral.js. It can format numbers, currency, percentages and has support for localization.

Answer 3

another approach:

function addCommas(nStr)
{
    nStr += '';
    x = nStr.split('.');
    x1 = x[0];
    x2 = x.length > 1 ? '.' + x[1] : '';
    var rgx = /(\d+)(\d{3})/;
    while (rgx.test(x1)) {
        x1 = x1.replace(rgx, '$1' + ',' + '$2');
    }
    return x1 + x2;
}
var a  = addCommas(10000.00);
alert(a);

Another amazing plugin: http://www.teamdf.com/web/jquery-number-format/178/

Answer 4

Timothy Pirez answer was very correct but if you need to replace the numbers with commas Immediately as user types in textfield, u might want to use the Keyup function.

      $('#textfield').live('keyup', function (event) {
        var value=$('#textfield').val();

      if(event.which >= 37 && event.which <= 40){
          event.preventDefault();
      }
      var newvalue=value.replace(/,/g, '');   
      var valuewithcomma=Number(newvalue).toLocaleString('en');   
      $('#textfield').val(valuewithcomma); 

      });

    <form><input type="text" id="textfield" ></form>

Answer 5

Another way to do it:

function addCommas(n){
  var s = "",
      r;

  while (n) {
    r = n % 1000;
    s = r + s;
    n = (n - r)/1000;
    s = (n ? "," : "") + s;
  }

  return s;
}

alert(addCommas(12345678));

Answer 6

Works on all browsers, this is all you need.

  function commaSeparateNumber(val){
    while (/(\d+)(\d{3})/.test(val.toString())){
      val = val.toString().replace(/(\d+)(\d{3})/, '$1'+','+'$2');
    }
    return val;
  }

Wrote this to be compact, and to the point, thanks to regex. This is straight JS, but you can use it in your jQuery like so:

$('#elementID').html(commaSeparateNumber(1234567890));

or

$('#inputID').val(commaSeparateNumber(1234567890));