# Creating Phone number validation

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/creating-phone-number-validation/741591
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/creating-phone-number-validation/741591 "2020-08-14T03:06:55Z")
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#### Post date: [October 21, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/creating-phone-number-validation/741591/6 "2020-10-21T20:33:15Z")

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In addition to validating the phone number is input, if you have a standard format you are looking for you can format the number while the user is typing the number.

See:

> [@Phone Number Formatting and Validation](http://community.thunkable.com/t/phone-number-validation/920509):
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> Background Currently I am working on a project that stores and retrieves phone numbers in AirTable. I was running into an issue with formatting the phone number correctly and I came up with a solution to format the phone number as you type in the text input. Concept Basically, every time the value changes, I strip out the non-number characters and then reformat the phone number in my desired format. Goal The following blocks format the number as: (###) ###-#### Properties I also set the keybo…

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