You could style the placeholder– ::-webkit-input-placeholder { text-transform: initial; } :-moz-placeholder { text-transform: initial; } ::-moz-placeholder { text-transform: initial; } :-ms-input-placeholder { text-transform: initial; }
Capitalize only affects the first letters of words. It will not change the case of the rest of the letters in a word. For example, if you capitalize a word that’s in all capital letters already, the other letters in the word won’t switch to lowercase. This is nice when your text includes an acronym … Read more
As @brian is mentioning in the comments the currently accepted answer by @piCookie is wrong! $_=”what’s the wrong answer?”; s/\b(\w)/\U$1/g print; This will print “What’S The Wrong Answer?” notice the wrongly capitalized S As the FAQ says you are probably better off using s/([\w’]+)/\u\L$1/g or Text::Autoformat
There is also: “coolat_cat”.camelize(:lower) # => “coolCat”
+1 for word boundaries, and here is a comparable Javascript solution. This accounts for possessives, as well: var re = /(\b[a-z](?!\s))/g; var s = “fort collins, croton-on-hudson, harper’s ferry, coeur d’alene, o’fallon”; s = s.replace(re, function(x){return x.toUpperCase();}); console.log(s); // “Fort Collins, Croton-On-Hudson, Harper’s Ferry, Coeur D’Alene, O’Fallon”
function titleCaseWord(word: string) { if (!word) return word; return word[0].toUpperCase() + word.substr(1).toLowerCase(); } You can also use in template TitleCasePipe Some component template: {{value |titlecase}}
Yes, you need to define a directive and define your own parser function: myApp.directive(‘capitalizeFirst’, function($parse) { return { require: ‘ngModel’, link: function(scope, element, attrs, modelCtrl) { var capitalize = function(inputValue) { if (inputValue === undefined) { inputValue=””; } var capitalized = inputValue.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + inputValue.substring(1); if(capitalized !== inputValue) { modelCtrl.$setViewValue(capitalized); modelCtrl.$render(); } return capitalized; } modelCtrl.$parsers.push(capitalize); … Read more
update Updating with what i think is the most valid approach nowadays. You can use a Unicode property escapes Regular expression if the support suits you. In this case you can use the General category property for Uppercase Letter Lu. function isUppercase(word){ return /^\p{Lu}/u.test( word ); } older answers var word = “Someword”; console.log( word[0] … Read more
Whenever one writes [A-Z] or [a-z], one explicitly commits to processing nothing but 7-bit ASCII data from the 1960s. If that’s really ok, then fine. But if it’s not ok, then Unicode character properties exist to help you with handling modern character data. There are three cases in Unicode, not two. Furthermore, you also have … Read more
You can use the following substitution: s/\<./\u&/g \< matches the start of a word . matches the first character of a word \u tells Vim to uppercase the following character in the substitution string (&) & means substitute whatever was matched on the left-hand side g means substitute all matches, not only the first