With jQuery, how do I capitalize the first letter of a text field while the user is still editing that field?

Question

I\'m looking for an example of how to capitalize the first letter of a string being entered into a text field. Normally, this is done on the entire field with a function, r

Answer 1

$('input[type="text"]').keyup(function(evt){
    var txt = $(this).val();


    // Regex taken from php.js (http://phpjs.org/functions/ucwords:569)
    $(this).val(txt.replace(/^(.)|\s(.)/g, function($1){ return $1.toUpperCase( ); }));
});