This annoys me - validation and formatting

[DimPrawn]

Just going to login to one of my online bank accounts.

It says this

Please enter a 10-digit customer number. (Try adding zeros to the beginning if your number is not long enough)

How about this, web devs, if the number is not long enough you could left pad the number with zeroes and make the users life a bit easier eh?

Same with postcodes, where it rejects because you've entered spaces between the out code and the in code, or you've entered telephone numbers and put spaces between the area code and the phone number. Devs, you can strip the spaces out, don't make users do this for you.

[Old Greg]

Just going to login to one of my online bank accounts.

It says this



How about this, web devs, if the number is not long enough you could left pad the number with zeroes and make the users life a bit easier eh?

Same with postcodes, where it rejects because you've entered spaces between the out code and the in code, or you've entered telephone numbers and put spaces between the area code and the phone number. Devs, you can strip the spaces out, don't make users do this for you.

You should be grateful your Basic Bank Account has even has an on-line facility.

[DimPrawn]

You should be grateful your Basic Bank Account has even has an on-line facility.

I got a set of free crayons when I opened it. Which was nice.

[Old Greg]

I got a set of free crayons when I opened it. Which was nice.

Was the indigestion bad?

[Halo Jones]

Rainbow poop

[doodab]

Was the indigestion bad?

You can cure it by eating chalk.

[MarillionFan]

Just going to login to one of my online bank accounts.

It says this
How about this, web devs, if the number is not long enough you could left pad the number with zeroes and make the users life a bit easier eh?

Same with postcodes, where it rejects because you've entered spaces between the out code and the in code, or you've entered telephone numbers and put spaces between the area code and the phone number. Devs, you can strip the spaces out, don't make users do this for you.

Sounds like a piece of Nick Fitz development. This is the exact nature of the piece of data I need, you as a user are an idiot, therefore even though it's easy to
write I am going to put up a smug user message and increment the counter NickKnowsBest by one.

[doodab]

Sounds like a piece of Nick Fitz development. This is the exact nature of the piece of data I need, you as a user are an idiot, therefore even though it's easy to
write I am going to put up a smug user message and increment the counter NickKnowsBest by one.

Of course the invalid number could occur for a number of reasons i.e. because they skipped or mistyped one of the other digits, in which case you've potentially tried to log them into a different account than the one they intended, which if they retry several times thinking they have the password wrong could result in that other account being randomly locked.

Given that users usually are idiots, it's probably the lesser of two evils to annoy the one who can't get his number right than just annoy one at random.

[TimberWolf]

Just going to login to one of my online bank accounts.

It says this



How about this, web devs, if the number is not long enough you could left pad the number with zeroes and make the users life a bit easier eh?

Same with postcodes, where it rejects because you've entered spaces between the out code and the in code, or you've entered telephone numbers and put spaces between the area code and the phone number. Devs, you can strip the spaces out, don't make users do this for you.

The credit card number one is worse. Where the number is rejected if you leave spaces between groups of 4 digits.

[Old Greg]

The credit card number one is worse. Where the number is rejected if you leave spaces between groups of 4 digits.

PM me your details and I'll see of I can get it to work for you.