我很难找到一个简单的库来处理日期和货币，所以我创建了自己的：https://github.com/dericeira/slimFormatter.js

简单如下：

var number = slimFormatter.currency(2000.54);

这是我的。。。

function thousandCommas(num) {
  num = num.toString().split('.');
  var ints = num[0].split('').reverse();
  for (var out=[],len=ints.length,i=0; i < len; i++) {
    if (i > 0 && (i % 3) === 0) out.push(',');
    out.push(ints[i]);
  }
  out = out.reverse() && out.join('');
  if (num.length === 2) out += '.' + num[1];
  return out;
}

YUI代码库使用以下格式：

format: function(nData, oConfig) {
    oConfig = oConfig || {};

    if(!YAHOO.lang.isNumber(nData)) {
        nData *= 1;
    }

    if(YAHOO.lang.isNumber(nData)) {
        var sOutput = nData + "";
        var sDecimalSeparator = (oConfig.decimalSeparator) ? oConfig.decimalSeparator : ".";
        var nDotIndex;

        // Manage decimals
        if(YAHOO.lang.isNumber(oConfig.decimalPlaces)) {
            // Round to the correct decimal place
            var nDecimalPlaces = oConfig.decimalPlaces;
            var nDecimal = Math.pow(10, nDecimalPlaces);
            sOutput = Math.round(nData*nDecimal)/nDecimal + "";
            nDotIndex = sOutput.lastIndexOf(".");

            if(nDecimalPlaces > 0) {
                // Add the decimal separator
                if(nDotIndex < 0) {
                    sOutput += sDecimalSeparator;
                    nDotIndex = sOutput.length-1;
                }
                // Replace the "."
                else if(sDecimalSeparator !== "."){
                    sOutput = sOutput.replace(".",sDecimalSeparator);
                }
                // Add missing zeros
                while((sOutput.length - 1 - nDotIndex) < nDecimalPlaces) {
                    sOutput += "0";
                }
            }
        }

        // Add the thousands separator
        if(oConfig.thousandsSeparator) {
            var sThousandsSeparator = oConfig.thousandsSeparator;
            nDotIndex = sOutput.lastIndexOf(sDecimalSeparator);
            nDotIndex = (nDotIndex > -1) ? nDotIndex : sOutput.length;
            var sNewOutput = sOutput.substring(nDotIndex);
            var nCount = -1;
            for (var i=nDotIndex; i>0; i--) {
                nCount++;
                if ((nCount%3 === 0) && (i !== nDotIndex)) {
                    sNewOutput = sThousandsSeparator + sNewOutput;
                }
                sNewOutput = sOutput.charAt(i-1) + sNewOutput;
            }
            sOutput = sNewOutput;
        }

        // Prepend prefix
        sOutput = (oConfig.prefix) ? oConfig.prefix + sOutput : sOutput;

        // Append suffix
        sOutput = (oConfig.suffix) ? sOutput + oConfig.suffix : sOutput;

        return sOutput;
    }
    // Still not a number. Just return it unaltered
    else {
        return nData;
    }
}

它需要编辑，因为YUI库是可配置的，比如用“.”替换oConfig.decimalSeparator。

主要部分是插入千个分隔符，可以这样做：

<script type="text/javascript">
  function ins1000Sep(val) {
    val = val.split(".");
    val[0] = val[0].split("").reverse().join("");
    val[0] = val[0].replace(/(\d{3})/g, "$1,");
    val[0] = val[0].split("").reverse().join("");
    val[0] = val[0].indexOf(",") == 0 ? val[0].substring(1) : val[0];
    return val.join(".");
  }

  function rem1000Sep(val) {
    return val.replace(/,/g, "");
  }

  function formatNum(val) {
    val = Math.round(val*100)/100;
    val = ("" + val).indexOf(".") > -1 ? val + "00" : val + ".00";
    var dec = val.indexOf(".");
    return dec == val.length-3 || dec == 0 ? val : val.substring(0, dec+3);
  }
</script>

<button onclick="alert(ins1000Sep(formatNum(12313231)));">

我主要基于VisionN的回答：

function format (val) {
  val = (+val).toLocaleString();
  val = (+val).toFixed(2);
  val += "";
  return val.replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+(?:\.\d+)?$)/g, "$1" + format.thousands);
}

(function (isUS) {
  format.decimal =   isUS ? "." : ",";
  format.thousands = isUS ? "," : ".";
}(("" + (+(0.00).toLocaleString()).toFixed(2)).indexOf(".") > 0));

我用输入进行了测试：

[   ""
  , "1"
  , "12"
  , "123"
  , "1234"
  , "12345"
  , "123456"
  , "1234567"
  , "12345678"
  , "123456789"
  , "1234567890"
  , ".12"
  , "1.12"
  , "12.12"
  , "123.12"
  , "1234.12"
  , "12345.12"
  , "123456.12"
  , "1234567.12"
  , "12345678.12"
  , "123456789.12"
  , "1234567890.12"
  , "1234567890.123"
  , "1234567890.125"
].forEach(function (item) {
  console.log(format(item));
});

得到了这些结果：

0.00
1.00
12.00
123.00
1,234.00
12,345.00
123,456.00
1,234,567.00
12,345,678.00
123,456,789.00
1,234,567,890.00
0.12
1.12
12.12
123.12
1,234.12
12,345.12
123,456.12
1,234,567.12
12,345,678.12
123,456,789.12
1,234,567,890.12
1,234,567,890.12
1,234,567,890.13

只是为了好玩。

如果金额是一个数字，比如-123，那么

amount.toLocaleString('en-US', { style: 'currency', currency: 'USD' });

将生成字符串“-123.00”。

这是一个完整的工作示例。