Prem Tiwari - - JavaScript, Web Technologies
Are you looking to build a script like twitter to show your users how many characters they have remaining to write? If your answer is yes, then keep a close eye in this tutorial. In this tutorial, I will explain how to count a character in textarea using jQuery. This is a quick tutorial about jQuery.
It is very useful as we need most of the time to create a textarea which will count the entered character by the user in the real web application development.
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Please make sure you have included the below jQuery file in your web page where you want to implement the character count functionality for your textarea.
1 2 3 | <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.js"></script> |
Use below code to create textarea characters count in your web applications. Copy paste below jQuery code in your page before head tag closed.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { var text_max = 250; $('#textarea_feedback').html(text_max + ' characters remaining'); $('#textarea').keyup(function() { var text_length = $('#textarea').val().length; var text_remaining = text_max - text_length; $('#textarea_feedback').html(text_remaining + ' characters remaining'); }); }); </script> |
Use below code in your application where you want to use character counter in textarea.
1 2 3 4 5 | <label>Type you text</label> <textarea id="textarea" maxlength="250" onkeyup="countChar(this)" class="form-control" rows="3"></textarea> <div id="textarea_feedback"></div> |
See the live demo of characters count script and then download complete code from below download link.
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Prem Tiwari is the founder of FreeWebMentor.com and also a professional developer who has vast experience in PHP and open source technologies. Apart from this, he is a blogger by hobby and also he has been a regular speaker of WordPress sessions in various IT Companies. View all posts by Prem Tiwari
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