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Re: Labels for phone number fields

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Sep 4, 2007 3:10PM

> To really answer your questions, the standard practice is to use one
> text box instead of three. Doing so would certainly make everything
> easier for the user and much more accessible. If it's an issue of
> formatting, the burden shouldn't be put on the end user to do
> something that should be done on the back end (simply strip out
> anything that is not a number, then reformat into whatever form you
> want).

^ this

*applauds*


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