Get the character count of a textarea including newlines
- by styfle
I tested this code in Chrome and there seems to be a bug involving the newlines. I am reaching the maxlength before I actually use all the characters.
<textarea id="myText" maxlength="200" style="width:70%;height:200px">
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s...
Enter something:
</textarea>
<div>
Char Count <span id="count"></span>/<span id="max"></span>
</div>?
<script>
var ta = document.getElementById('myText');
document.getElementById('max').innerHTML = ta.maxLength;
setInterval(function() {
document.getElementById('count').innerHTML = ta.value.length;
}, 250);?
</script>
How can I accurately get the char count of a textarea?
jsFiddle demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Qw6vz/1/
