>>>But you really want your formatter to run *after* the angular formatter (so it can strip the commas that are present) and, since it will get it's value as a string it would need to be rewritten accordingly.
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>>>UPDATE: I see it is expecting a string so forget the last bit.
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>>>What I'm not sure about is how you ensure your formatter is second in the chain.....
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>>>UPDATE2 : Duh. I now see that's what you were trying with negative priority. Did you check the actual order obtained in that case ?
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>>I am not exactly sure how to test. I could not find priority property anywhere.
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>>When I was debugging, I think I saw the formatter running first and then the InputNumber code, but I am getting confused.
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>Came across this on github : http://blog.yodersolutions.com/validate-and-format-numbers-in-angularjs/
>It's a replacement for 'type="number"' and seems to have all (and more) of the added functionality that you have in your directive ?

Looks like a good one. I was thinking also of borrowing logic for validators from the input type="number" into our directive and this way we would not need anything extra.