Word count using jQuery

Nonny123 — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 01:51:45 +0000

This post is aimed at creating a jQuery word count function. The code below can be used to limit the total number of words in a textbox (e.g Abstract for research thesis report) using jQuery.


function WordCount() {
       //Get Text data
        var inp = document.getElementById('txtabstract').value;
    var regex = /\s+/gi;

    var wordcount = jQuery.trim(inp).replace(regex, ' ').split(' ').length;      


    $("#labelcount").html(wordcount);
}

$(document).ready(function(){
    //count word on page load
    WordCount();
//count word on entering text in TextBox
$("#txtabstract").on('input',function(){
    WordCount();


})  

})

This code is used to let a user know when the abstract for his project report has exceeded 300 words (which is the standard for an abstract) at Classgist

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Word count using jQuery