Count the Number of Words in a TextArea using jQuery

January 5, 2010

Count the Number of Words in a TextArea using jQuery

Tuesday, January 05, 2010 Posted by Suprotim Agarwal
Labels: ASP.NET, jQuery

If you were looking out for a script to count the number of words in a TextArea, then here it is:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Count Words in a TextArea</title>

    <script type="text/javascript"
     src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js">
    </script>  
   
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function() {
            $("#btnCount").click(function() {
            var strText = jQuery.trim($('#txtArea').val());
            alert('Total No of Words are: ' + strText.split(/\s+/).length);
            });
        });     
    </script>
</head>
<body>   
    <div>
        <textarea id="txtArea" cols="20" rows="10">
        </textarea>
        <br />
        <input id="btnCount" type="button" value="Count Words" />
    </div>
</body>
</html>

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Suprotim Agarwal, ASP.NET Architecture MVP works as an Architect Consultant and provides consultancy on how to design and develop Web applications.

Suprotim is also the founder and primary contributor to DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He has also written an EBook 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls.

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