Polymer - Preventing one instance of attribute updating - polymer

I'm generating a list using DOM repeat. Each item has a title and a date. The date is a string which is formatted by the back-end like this:
Example 1
I bind the [[item.date]] property to a selector element to change the value, but when I then modify that property the format changes to the default Javascript format like this:
Example 2
Is there any way I can prevent that specific label from updating?
Some code for explanation:
The label:
<div>
<b>Datum: </b>[[item.startdatum]]
</div>
The label in question is the [[item.startdatum]]
I'm then editing it in this cell:
<td>
Starttijd:
<paper-datetime-picker-item date="{{item.startdatum}}" label="Start"locale="nl"></paper-datetime-picker-item>
<paper-input value="{{item.startdatum}}" hidden name="start"></paper-input>
</td>
So what I want is that the first label [[item.startdatum]] doesn't change when I update it with the date-picker.

You need to specify the format in the paper-datetime-picker-item.
<paper-datetime-picker-item
date="{{item.startdatum}}"
label="Start"
locale="nl"
date-format="YYYY-MM-DD kk:mm"
></paper-datetime-picker-item>
Date format uses the momentjs display format. [1]
Also you probably do not need the paper-input.
[1] - https://momentjs.com/

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How to format a vaadin text field to display currency in $x,xxx format

I want to use the vaadin text field with polymer and I want the text to be auto formatted to money format like $4,500 or $10,000 while user is typing. I am able to get the prefix and numbers only but not the comma.
<vaadin-text-field prevent-invalid-input pattern="[0-9]*" style = "width: 6em"><div slot="prefix">$</div> </vaadin-text-field>.
I believe vaadin-text-field does not have any direct property or way to do this. I made a workaround by making a component wrapper for it. Basically, it validates input as users type and adds commas in the right place. It's compatible with . as input as well. Use the property comma to turn the feature on and off. The repo link is below.
https://github.com/binhbbbb/comma-field
You can use NumeralFieldFormatter from the vaadin addon TextField Formatter:
new NumberFieldFormatter(",", ".", 3).extend(myNumberField);

How can my text input be empty if the value attribute is set?

Have a look at the following screenshot. You can see that the text input field is empty, yet its value attribute is set to "b".
You'll also notice in the Properties tab, under input, that value here is set to "". Why are they different? What does this mean?
Could this be related to the fact that the input was rendered by React?
If it helps, here is the jsx responsible for this element (redacted):
return (
<td
key={field._id}
className={`oldField ${colPos}`}
>
<input
type="text"
defaultValue={value}
onChange={this.changeOldField(record, field)}
/>
</td>
)
It seems that you are changing the defaultValue based on something from the state. The defaultValue prop should be set only once and not changed later on, because any more changes will be ignored by React. If you want to change the value based on state you should use the normal value prop. Otherwise, if you want a predefined value to appear to the user and at the same time control the input when it gets changed, you can either use some logic in your code that handles both onChange and the code in your component that wants to automatically change the value, or possibly place it in the placeholder prop, which will give you something like what you want.

format number in input box with two decimal place

I have below input control in my html
<input id="inputcntrl" type="text" value="{{(mynumber) | number:'2.2-2'}}" [(ngModel)]="mynumber" (blur)="validatemynumber()" />
As you can see I am formatting input text to make sure it has two decimal values. It does work correctly when user enters the value in input box. onBlur event I am checking the value entered by user and if it is not within the range (min >mynumber>max) then I am setting mynumber with min value. Problem is mynumber displays min value with no formatting. forex: If min valule is 10 then input box should display 10.00 but it displays only 10..any idea how can I fix this? I am using angular2
Update: I think problem in my case is with somehow related to binding..When I update mynumber from my component and the new value is reflected in UI but its formatting is lost. mynumber variable is of type number. I need to find a way to update value with formatting from component
Try mynumber.toFixed(2)
<input id="inputcntrl" type="text" value="{{mynumber.toFixed(2)}}" [(ngModel)]="mynumber" (blur)="validatemynumber()" />
Here is a reference documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Number/toFixed
If you want to format mynumber at your component with an angular way, try using built-in DecimalPipe at your component(the same as number pipe used at your template).
import { DecimalPipe } from '#angular/common'
this.mynumber = this.decimal.transform(this.mynumber, '2.2-2');
Plunker demo

Putting HTML in a hidden form field in Django

I'm having a problem with a template: I'm trying to display a form for changing a value, in which the user enters the current value in a textarea and the old value is kept inside a hidden field for auditing purposes. This value is generally some HTML, and when I render the page this HTML in the hidden field seems to get partially rendered: the value attribute of my hidden field gets closed by the first quotation marks inside the entered HTML, and the rest of the HTML spews out onto my page. I've tried using the escape decorator but that hasn't changed anything.
Firstly, a better solution might be to keep the audit value in a separate model field defined with editable=False. You can still perform checks against the value in a form's clean method:
def clean(self):
cleaned_data = super(SomeForm, self).clean()
if instance.the_audit_field == cleaned_data['the_editable_field']:
...raise a validation error?
You can also modify the value of the audit field from within the model's save method.
Secondly, assuming you must do it the way you are now, let me address the non-escaped value in your template. I assume you're using something like the following:
<textarea value="{{ form.the_audit_field.value }}"></textarea>
You should instead use the following:
<textarea>{{ form.the_audit_field.value }}</textarea>
Note, the value goes inside the textarea, instead of in the value attribute of it.
An even better way to do it is to simply allow Django to render the field for you like the following:
{{ form.the_audit_field }}

Can't remove the value entered in the djFilteringSelect dojo control in xPages

I am using the djFilteringSelect control to show values in a dropdown as user type a value.
The lookup and typehead is working fine. The user type a letter and the dropdown allow the user to select a value which is then displayed in the dropdown field.
If the user now decide to remove the value first selected so that the combobox is empty and leave the field, then the first value in the list is now automatically filled in.
The consequence of this is that if the user have added a value there is no way to remove the value and leave the box emtpy.
I am using required=false for both the control and the dojo attribute but it does not seem to help. There are also a few other djFilteringSelect attributes I have tried like "Autocomplete" and "trim" but it does not work
Here is the code
<xe:djFilteringSelect id="test" type="select" store="jsondata" searchAttr="data" required="false" labelType="html" invalidMessage="Not valid">
<xe:this.dojoAttributes>
<xp:dojoAttribute name="required" value="false"></xp:dojoAttribute>
</xe:this.dojoAttributes>
</xe:djFilteringSelect>
Initally the field is not required, but if the user have entered a value it is required.
My question is if there a way to prevent the djFilteringSelect control to always populate the field if I have previously added a value
I found someone who solved this in another stack overflow topic, by creating an empty entry in my data store. but I could not get this to work
Dojo: Select of empty value for FilteringSelect while required=false
I do this quite a lot. Right now I don't have a working sample to show you (since I moved to bootstrap - and have to code the selects by manually adding select2 controls) but something like this should do it...
I add an "empty" value at the top of my select - and that seems to work no matter whether I am using a combobox, djCombobox or combobox with select2 from bootstrap. My markup typically looks like:
<xp:comboBox id="inputLocationSelector" value="#{User.catchListType}" disableClientSideValidation="true">
<xp:selectItem itemLabel="(none)" itemValue=""></xp:selectItem>
<xp:selectItems>
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[${Configuration.meta.listLocationTypeOptions}]]></xp:this.value>
</xp:selectItems>
</xp:comboBox>
Then you could specify "(none)", "All" or " " for the "not-selected" value depending on your needs.
Validation is a different thing so just specifying "required=false" does not give you the "empty" value.
/John