https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/whats-the-point-of-showing-for-phone-format Gravity Support Forums Topic: What's the point of showing (###)###-#### for phone format? en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:14:21 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/whats-the-point-of-showing-for-phone-format#post-10939 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:38:17 +0000 George 10939@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>555-555-1212 Format works for me... The (555) is just awkward. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/whats-the-point-of-showing-for-phone-format#post-10937 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:34:17 +0000 cnymike 10937@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Another vote for improving this. It seems unnecessary and I don't like the lack of a space after the area code final parenthesis and prefix of phone number either. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/whats-the-point-of-showing-for-phone-format#post-1144 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:32:54 +0000 Carl Hancock 1144@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Good points, we will look into improving this in a future release. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/whats-the-point-of-showing-for-phone-format#post-1124 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:19:27 +0000 mikepeyzner 1124@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I agree, making it cleaner will only improve usability. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/whats-the-point-of-showing-for-phone-format#post-1122 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:36:35 +0000 Chris Hajer 1122@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I can enter almost any number format in there, it seems. So, why display this text underneath the field as instruction (requirement?) to the user if it's not required? Requiring that rigid format would be silly anyway, so I just wonder why that is under the field?</p> <p>I have tried 8885551212 and 888-555-1212 and both worked. </p> <p>I've mentioned the space after the area code closing paren before:<br /> <a href="http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/modify-phone-format-to-put-space-after-close-paren" rel="nofollow">http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/modify-phone-format-to-put-space-after-close-paren</a></p> <p>Now after entering data a few times, the format suggestion displayed is apparently ignored so why display that to the visitor anyway? Just let them enter their phone number. </p>