Counting Words
Thursday August 7, 2008
Count words with JavaScript
Have a text area in a form and want to know how many words your visitor enters? This simple JavaScript will keep count for you.
Counting Words
Have a text area in a form and want to know how many words your visitor enters? This simple JavaScript will keep count for you.
Counting Words
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I had to change:
a=y.replace(’\n’,’ ‘);
to:
a=y.replace(/\n/g,’ ‘);
otherwise words separated only by newlines weren’t counted. (firefox v1.5)
I have updated the page to use /\s/g so that it will even allow for multiple spaces or new lines between words without messing up the count.