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10 Best jQuery/JavaScript Plugins For Phone Number Handling (2026 Update)

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Struggling with phone numbers on your website? International formats, hidden digits, and validation errors can create chaos. But fret no more! This list of 10 open-source JavaScript libraries and jQuery plugins is your secret weapon.

Instead of you spending hours testing different libraries, I've done the research to recommend the most trusted and versatile solutions. From masking numbers to ensuring proper formatting and validating user input, these libraries/plugins have you covered.

Originally Published Sep 05 2022, updated Jan 16 2026

1. intl-tel-input

International Telephone Input is a useful jQuery plugin that turns the standard input into an International Telephone Input with a national flag drop down list.

Features:

  • Automatically select the user's current country using an IP lookup
  • Automatically set the input placeholder to an example number for the selected country
  • Navigate the country dropdown by typing a country's name, or using the up/down keys
  • Automatically format the number as the user types
  • Optionally, only allow numeric characters and cap the number at the maximum valid length
  • The user types their national number, and the plugin gives you the full standardised international number
  • Number validation, including specific error types
  • High-resolution flag images
  • Accessibility provided via ARIA tags
  • Typescript type definitions included
  • Easily customise styles by overriding CSS variables, e.g. support dark mode
  • React, Vue, Angular and Svelte components also included
  • Translations provided in over 40 languages, as well as support for RTL layout and alternative numeral sets
  • Lots of initialisation options for customisation, as well as instance methods/events for interaction

intl-tel-input

[Demo] [Download]

2. Easy jQuery International Telephone Input Plugin - IntlInputPhone

IntlInputPhone is a jQuery plugin that creates a country dropdown with country dialing codes and flags to help the users quickly enter the telephone numbers.

Easy jQuery International Telephone Input Plugin - IntlInputPhone

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3. International Telephone Input With Flags And Dial Codes

A JavaScript library for creating a user-friendly feature-rich international telephone input with flags and dial codes.

It enables users to quickly select their country and input their phone number in the correct format, improving the user experience and reducing the chances of errors. The library also has a built-in phone number validator based on Regex, which automatically checks for the validity of the entered number.

International Telephone Input With Flags and Dial Codes

[Demo] [Download]

4. Lightweight jQuery Input Mask Plugin For Phone Numbers

This is a lightweight and easy-to-use jQuery input mask plugin to mask and validate US (or international) phone numbers in standard input fields.

Lightweight jQuery Input Mask Plugin For Phone Numbers

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5. Basic Phone Input Mask With Pure JavaScript – phone-mask

phone-mask is a really simple JavaScript plugin to make custom masks on phone inputs.

Basic Phone Input Mask With Pure JavaScript – phone-mask

[Demo] [Download]

6. Easy Telephone Number Input Mask JavaScript Library – phonemask

Just another telephone input mask JavaScript library that automatically formats telephone numbers typed in a tel input field.

Easy Telephone Number Input Mask JavaScript Library – phonemask

[Demo] [Download]

7. International Phone Number Input Plugin with jQuery - mobilePhoneNumber

mobilePhoneNumber is a jQuery phone number input mask plugin that automatically formats and validates international phone numbers when an user is typing.

International Phone Number Input Plugin with jQuery - mobilePhoneNumber

[Demo] [Download]

8. User-friendly Telephone & Pincode Input Plugin - Input Lettering

A jQuery plugin to create a user-friendly telephone, one-time password or PIN/ZIP code input from a group of text fields. The caret will automatically jump to the next one after the current text field is filled.

User-friendly Telephone & Pincode Input Plugin - Input Lettering

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9. Format Phone Numbers With Vanilla JavaScript – phoneinput.js

A vanilla JavaScript plugin which automatically formats the phone numbers typed in an input field using your own pattern.

Format Phone Numbers With Vanilla JavaScript – phoneinput.js

[Demo] [Download]

10. JavaScript Library For Parsing, Formatting and Validating Phone Numbers – front.phone

An easy yet useful JavaScript library used for identifying, formatting and validation phone numbers.

Currently supports 22 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Spain, France, Guatemala, GBR, Guatemala, Korea, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela.

JavaScript Library For Parsing, Formatting and Validating Phone Numbers – front.phone

[Demo] [Download]

Conclusion:

These 10 plugins each offer a unique alternative to help you tackle these very niche issues, and there are also plenty of other options available. As you can see, there are a lot of different ways that JavaScript can help out with telephone number manipulation. Hopefully, this plugin listing has been helpful for anyone looking to tackle the challenge of adding telephone support to their site.

More Resources:

Looking for more JavaScript plugins to handling telephone numbers on the web & mobile? See jQuery Telephone sections.

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