JavaScript For Character Count

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This article demonstrates you how to count characters in an input field on your html page using simple JavaScript code. 

Step 1 - Character count with JavaScript

Character count with JavaScript

Let’s see the situation when you want to inform the user how many characters was entered in an input field. To solve this problem we will perform the following steps:

1. Create a simple HTML page with a textarea, and an information box
2. Create a JavaScript function that counts the characters
3. Setup a trigger on the textarea to execute the function on keypress  more...