# Input Amount
`lion-input-amount` component is based on the generic text input field. Its purpose is to provide a way for users to fill in an amount.
For formatting, we use Intl NumberFormat with some overrides.
For parsing user input, we provide our own parser that takes into account a number of heuristics, locale and ignores invalid characters.
Valid characters are digits and separators. Formatting happens on-blur.
If there are no valid characters in the input whatsoever, it will provide an error feedback.
```js script
import { html } from 'lit-html';
import { loadDefaultFeedbackMessages } from '@lion/validate-messages';
import './lion-input-amount.js';
export default {
title: 'Forms/Input Amount',
};
loadDefaultFeedbackMessages();
```
```js preview-story
export const main = () => {
return html` `;
};
```
## Features
- Based on [lion-input](?path=/docs/forms-input--main#input)
- Makes use of [formatNumber](?path=/docs/localize-numbers--formatting#formatting) for formatting and parsing.
- Option to show currency as a suffix
- Option to override locale to change the formatting and parsing
- Option to provide additional format options overrides
- Default label in different languages
- Can make use of number specific [validators](?path=/docs/forms-validation-overview--page) with corresponding error messages in different languages
- IsNumber (default)
- MinNumber
- MaxNumber
- MinMaxNumber
## How to use
### Installation
```bash
npm i --save @lion/input-amount
```
```js
import { LionInputAmount } from '@lion/input-amount';
// or
import '@lion/input-amount/lion-input-amount.js';
```
## Examples
### Negative Number
It will accept negative numbers with a minus symbol.
```js preview-story
export const negativeNumber = () => html`
`;
```
### Set currency suffix
You can optionally set a currency suffix with the `currency` attribute.
```js preview-story
export const currencySuffix = () => html`
`;
```
### Force locale
Locale can be forced for a specific `lion-input-amount`. It will format the amount according to this locale.
```js preview-story
export const forceLocale = () => html`
`;
```
> The separators are now flipped due to Dutch locale. On top of that, due to JOD currency, the minimum amount of decimals is 3 by default for this currency.
### Faulty prefilled
This example will show the error message by prefilling it with a faulty `modelValue`.
> If there is 1 or more digit in the input, it will ignore invalid characters instead of showing an error feedback message.
```js preview-story
export const faultyPrefilled = () => html`
`;
```
### Modifying the amount of decimals
You can override certain formatting options similar to how you would do this when using Intl NumberFormat.
This example shows formatting to whole numbers.
```js preview-story
export const noDecimals = () => html`
`;
```
### Paste behavior
For copy pasting numbers into the input-amount, there is slightly different parsing behavior.
Normally, when it receives an input with only 1 separator character, we check the locale to determine whether this character is a thousand separator, or a decimal separator.
When a user pastes the input from a different source, we find this approach (locale-based) quite unreliable, because it may have been copied from somewhere with a different locale.
Therefore, we use the heuristics based method to parse the input when it is pasted by the user.
#### What this means
If the user in an English locale types `400,0` it will become `4,000.00`
because the locale determines that the comma is a thousand separator, not a decimal separator.
If the user in an English locale pastes `400,0` instead, it will become `400.00` because we cannot rely on locale.
Therefore, instead, we determine that the comma cannot be a thousand separator because it is not followed by 3 digits after.
It is more likely to be a decimal separator.