# Entering currency fields on a form (outside of a grid)

**URL:** <https://forum.servoy.com/t/entering-currency-fields-on-a-form-outside-of-a-grid/20707>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/entering-currency-fields-on-a-form-outside-of-a-grid/20707 "2022-03-09T00:15:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![roddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@roddy](https://forum.servoy.com/u/roddy)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/entering-currency-fields-on-a-form-outside-of-a-grid/20707/1 "2022-03-09T00:15:23Z")

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I am trying to setup a text box to allow the user to enter a currency; while this works fine with $#,##0.00|#0.00 in an AG Grid, when using a ‘Field’ or a ‘TextBox’ web component I get the same results as in this previous topic:  
[viewtopic.php?f=22&t=9659](https://forum.servoy.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=9659)

Unlike the AG Grid which has an edit format and a display format, the text box/field in a form only has a display format and a placeholder. So trying to enter 25 into the TextBox will display $250.00.

This surely must be possible; does anyone know how currency entry works in a form’s text box/field?

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**Author:** ![roddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@roddy](https://forum.servoy.com/u/roddy)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/entering-currency-fields-on-a-form-outside-of-a-grid/20707/2 "2022-03-11T01:55:47Z")

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For anyone else who gets caught up in this; the ability to have an edit format as well as a display format only appears if the data provider is type Number.