Javascript - Forms

Counting words and characters

Simply copy and paste the following code inside an html page and run it from a browser (tested on IE & Mozilla).
If you want to see the live result (we believe this is the best way to learn what is the script about), try it here (new window).

<form method="post" name="theform" action="#"> <script type="text/javascript"> function countwords() { var formtext=document.theform.text.value; formtext=formtext.split(" "); document.theform.nbwords.value= formtext.length; document.theform.nbchar.value= document.theform.text.value.length; } </script> <textarea rows="12" name="text" cols="60" wrap="virtual"></textarea> <p> <input type="button" value="Get the numbers!" onclick="javascript:countwords();"> <input type="text" name="nbwords" /> <input type="text" name="nbchar" /> </p> </form>

Note: simply change the data according to your needs and the form.

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