Validation of phone field

[teddywing]

• Validate the phone field for a correct phone number.
• Allow support for different entry formats, eg. (617) 555-1212, 617-555-1212, 617.555.1212, etc.

[natea]

This USPhoneNumberWidget widget might come in handy: http://hustoknow.blogspot.com/2010/10/usphonenumberwidget.html

Although I don't know if I like this solution very much because it requires typing text into 3 fields, instead of just one. A smarter widget would be one that auto-corrects the phone number formatting as you tab out of the field.