Comments on: Word count in textarea

By: Zerovic

Zerovic — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:03:29 +0000

what an awesome thing! Thanks for posting! However, it looked a bit complicated on the first try. Couldn’t make it work until I changed all those ’ and ” “ characters to ‘ and ”

I’m on to it more fancy, with adding colors to it..
if number of words 95 but < 105 make it green
else make it red

By: Neill Horsman

Neill Horsman — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:20:27 +0000

Built up a quick jquery word count down that may help others

JS:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(‘#comment’).keypress(function() {
var comment = $(‘#comment’).val().split(‘ ‘).length;
$(‘.value’).html(25 – comment);
});
});

html

25 Word Remaining

By: Rytis Lukoševičius

Rytis Lukoševičius — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:02:30 +0000

Thank you for the tip. Exactly what I needed with few modifications just to show the word count as the user is typing into textarea.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:13:11 +0000

here is upgrade, to work with non EN chars

var initial_whitespace_rExp = /^[^\w\W]+/gi;
var non_alphanumerics_rExp = rExp = /[^\w\W]+/gi;