inittel

International Telephone Input

A jQuery plugin for entering and validating international telephone numbers. It adds a flag dropdown to any input, which lists all the countries and their international dial codes next to their flags.

Demo and Examples

You can view a live demo and some examples of how to use the various options here: http://jackocnr.com/intl-tel-input.html, or try it for yourself using the included demo.html.

Features

• Automatically format the number as the user types
• Automatically set the input placeholder to an example number for the selected country
• Navigate the country dropdown by typing a country's name, or using up/down keys
• Selecting a country from the dropdown will update the dial code in the input
• Typing a different dial code will automatically update the displayed flag
• Dropdown appears above or below the input depending on available space/scroll position
• Lots of initialisation options for customisation, as well as public methods for interaction

Getting Started

1. Download the latest version, or better yet install it with Bower: bower install intl-tel-input
2. Link the stylesheet (note that this references the image flags.png)

<link rel="stylesheet" href="build/css/intlTelInput.css">

1. Add the plugin script and initialise it on your input element (alternatively, use a script loader like RequireJS)

<input type="tel" id="mobile-number">
 
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="build/js/intlTelInput.min.js"></script>
<script>
  $("#mobile-number").intlTelInput();
</script> 

Options

Note: any options that take country codes should be lower case ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes

autoFormat
Type: Boolean Default: true (if you specify the utilsScript option)
Format the number on each keypress according to the country-specific formatting rules. If enabled, this will prevent the user from entering invalid characters. Requires the utilsScript option.

autoHideDialCode
Type: Boolean Default: true
If there is just a dial code in the input: remove it on blur, and re-add it on focus. This is to prevent just a dial code getting submitted with the form.

defaultCountry
Type: String Default: ""
Set the default country by it's country code. Otherwise it will just be the first country in the list.

nationalMode
Type: Boolean Default: false
Don't insert the international dial code when the user selects a country from the dropdown. Useful if you want to accept numbers in national format, and then you can use getSelectedCountryData to get the selected country's dial code.

onlyCountries
Type: Array Default: undefined
Display only the countries you specify.

preferredCountries
Type: Array Default: ["us", "gb"]
Specify the countries to appear at the top of the list.

responsiveDropdown
Type: Boolean Default: false
Set the dropdown's width to be the same as the input. Useful for mobile devices etc.

utilsScript
Type: String Default: "" Example: "lib/libphonenumber/build/utils.js"
Enable formatting/validation/example numbers (for placeholders) by specifying the URL to the included utils.js script (~200KB), which is fetched only when the page has finished loading (to prevent blocking). See Utilities Script for more information.

Public Methods

destroy
Remove the plugin from the input, and unbind any event listeners

$("#mobile-number").intlTelInput("destroy");

getSelectedCountryData
Get the country data for the currently selected flag

$("#mobile-number").intlTelInput("getSelectedCountryData");

Returns something like this:

{
  name: "Afghanistan (‫افغانستان‬‎)",
  iso2: "af",
  dialCode: "93"
}

isValidNumber
Validate the current number using Google's libphonenumber (requires the utilsScript option). Expects an internationally formatted number (unless nationalMode is enabled).

$("#mobile-number").intlTelInput("isValidNumber");

Returns: true/false

selectCountry
Select a country after initialisation (e.g. when the user is entering their address)

$("#mobile-number").intlTelInput("selectCountry", "gb");

setNumber
Insert a number, and update the selected flag accordingly

$("#mobile-number").intlTelInput("setNumber", "[phone]");

Static Methods

getCountryData
Get all of the plugin's country data

var countryData = $.fn.intlTelInput.getCountryData();

Returns an array of country objects:

[{
  name: "Afghanistan (‫افغانستان‬‎)",
  iso2: "af",
  dialCode: "93"
}, ...]

setCountryData
Set all of the plugin's country data

$.fn.intlTelInput.setCountryData(countryData);

Utilities Script

International number formatting/validation is hard (it varies by country/district). The only comprehensive solution I have found is Google's libphonenumber, which I have precompiled into a single JavaScript file and included in the lib directory. Unfortunately even after minification it is still ~200KB, so I have included it as an optional extra. If you specify the utilsScript option then it will fetch the script only when the page has finished loading (to prevent blocking), and allows you to use the public isValidNumber function, autoFormat mode and will automatically update your input's placeholder to an example number for the selected country.

Troubleshooting

Image path
Depending on your project setup, you may need to override the path to flags.png in your CSS.

.intl-tel-input .flag {background-image: url("path/to/flags.png");}

Full width input
If you want your input to be full-width, you need to set the container to be the same i.e.

.intl-tel-input {width: 100%;}

Input margin
For the sake of alignment, the default CSS forces the input's vertical margin to 0px. If you want vertical margin, you should add it to the container (with class intl-tel-input).

Displaying error messages
If your error handling code inserts an error message before the <input> it will break the layout. Instead you must insert it before the container (with class intl-tel-input).

Contributing

I'm very open to contributions, big and small! For instructions on contributing to a project on Github, see this guide: Fork A Repo.

I use Grunt to build the project, which relies on npm. In the project directory, run npm install to install Grunt (and other dependencies), then make your changes in the src directory and run grunt build to build the project.

Attributions

• Flag images and CSS from Flag Sprites (which uses FamFamFam)
• Original country data from mledoze's World countries in JSON, CSV and XML
• Formatting/validation/example number code from libphonenumber
• Feature contributions are listed in the wiki: Contributions