Pad a number with leading zeros in JavaScript [duplicate]

Answer 1

Try:

String.prototype.lpad = function(padString, length) {
    var str = this;
    while (str.length < length)
        str = padString + str;
    return str;
}

Now test:

var str = "5";
alert(str.lpad("0", 4)); //result "0005"
var str = "10"; // note this is string type
alert(str.lpad("0", 4)); //result "0010"

DEMO

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In ECMAScript 8 , we have new method padStart and padEnd which has below syntax.

"string".padStart(targetLength [,padString]):

So now we can use

const str = "5";
str.padStart(4, "0"); // "0005"