sample character count

by Amy Patterson

HTML

<p>
    <textarea id='bar'>This is <b>bold</b> and this is <i>italic</i>.</textarea>
    <p>Character Count: <span id='charcount'></span></p>
</p>
<p>
<textarea id='bar2'>This is <b>bold</b> and this is <i>italic</i>.</textarea>
<p>Character Count: <span id='charcount2'></span></p>
</p>

JavaScript

$("#bar").html( $("#bar").text().replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '') );
$("#charcount").html( $("#bar").text().replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '').length );
$("#charcount2").html( $("#bar2").text().length );