[thelist] Word counter
Simon Willison
cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Sun Oct 12 11:18:07 CDT 2003
Mark Jones wrote:
> I am looking for a routine on a form that will count the number of
> charaters being typed into that form.
>
> Any ideas?
Here's a quick-and-dirty solution:
<script type="text/javascript">
function countMe(obj, targetID) {
var target = document.getElementById(targetID);
target.innerHTML = 'Count: ' + obj.value.length;
}
</script>
<form>
<textarea name="text" id="myText" onkeyup="countMe(this,
'counter')"></textarea>
<div id="counter">Count: 0</div>
</form>
<tip type="Rapid prototyping with HTML">
If you want to try out a snippet of HTML, CSS or Javascript quickly
without creating and saving a new file (for example to try out a code
snippet before posting it to the list) use Jesse Ruderman's Real-time
HTML editor:
http://www.squarefree.com/htmledit/
</tip>
Hope that helps,
Simon Willison
http://simon.incutio.com/
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