Allow only these charaters in javascript or jquery

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Allow only these characters in textbox and restrict other characters from being inserted 

Allow only 
alphabets , numbers , left key, right key, backspace key, delete key, forward slash, round brackets (), ampersand, dot, dash, whitespaces 

other characters should be ignored.

What I have tried:

([A-Z])\w+

I have tried this but not getting successful.

Posted 10-May-18 5:39am

Emad Khan

Updated 10-May-18 12:34pm

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Nathan Minier 10-May-18 11:41am

That's a regex, which is great and all, but will not manage key press events on it's own. You need to supply your event handling logic before anyone will be able to assist.

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Emad Khan · Answer 1 · 2018-05-10T05:47:00

Solution 1

$('.a').onkeydown(function(){
///
})

Posted 10-May-18 5:47am

Emad Khan

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Richard Deeming 10-May-18 12:19pm

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Patrice T 10-May-18 12:46pm

Use Improve question to update your question.
So that everyone can pay attention to this information.

Christian Graus · Answer 2 · 2018-05-10T12:36:00

Solution 2

A regex is not a solution. It can identify if your entered text is inside the range, but it won't do anything about it

Posted 10-May-18 12:36pm

Christian Graus