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TypeError: Cannot read property 'createRange' of undefined

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Hello,

I got this error when using ngx-currency with material input.

<input matInput type="number" placeholder="0" formControlName="buildingValue" required currencyMask >

TypeError: Cannot read property 'createRange' of undefined
    at InputManager.get [as inputSelection] (input.manager.js:46)
    at InputManager.get [as canInputMoreNumbers] (input.manager.js:27)
    at InputService.get [as canInputMoreNumbers] (input.service.js:137)
    at InputHandler.push../node_modules/ngx-currency/src/input.handler.js.InputHandler.handleKeypress (input.handler.js:82)
    at CurrencyMaskDirective.push../node_modules/ngx-currency/src/currency-mask.directive.js.CurrencyMaskDirective.handleKeypress (currency-mask.directive.js:76)

Angular CLI: 7.3.9
Node: 10.16.0
OS: win32 x64
Angular: 7.2.15
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... language-service, platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic
... router

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:5

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dhermytcommented, Sep 13, 2019

@Cerbrus the issue is with type="number". If you remove this then it works nicely. The error message should be different though, because it took me a while to find the cause.

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Cerbruscommented, Sep 13, 2019

Well that helps! It works like a charm now.

This should probably be documented somewhere.