Datebox accepts alphabetic characters, which it shouldn't

[galcott]

I have just found that the datebox component accepts alphabetic characters (a-z) which it definitely should not. Obviously it should only accept digits and date separators. I have tried to fix this by binding the keypress event to a function that checks the character typed and returns false if it's not a digit or separator but that doesn't work. How can this be fixed?

[jarry]

The code below shows how to override the 'inputEvents' and bind the 'keypress' event on the datebox component.

Code:

$('#d1').datebox({
	inputEvents: $.extend({},$.fn.datebox.defaults.inputEvents,{
		keypress: function(e){
			var c = String.fromCharCode(e.which);
			if ('0123456789/'.indexOf(c) >= 0){
				return true;
			} else {
				return false;
			}
		}
	})
})

[galcott]

That works but why isn't that the normal behavior? A datebox should only accept digits and separators. This is definitely a bug.