Count characters in H1 tag

I need to count the number of characters rendered in an H1 tag. Is there any way to do this. I know there are a lot of character counters but they seem to be built for inputs/textareas. Many thanks in adv开发者_JAVA技巧ance.

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Like this:

alert("Text length: "+$("h1").text().length);

Not counting whitespace:

alert("Text length: "+$("h1").text().replace(" ", "").length);

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This can also be accomplished by passing a function into the .text() method in jQuery.

$("h1").text(function(index, text){
    alert(text.length);
});

note, this will run for every <h1/> on your page.

Code example on jsfiddle.

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try this:

var length = $("h1").html().length;
alert(length);

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if this tag has a class (in this case h1class) then you might be able to use something like:

alert($(".h1class").text().length);

you could also use it directly but that might get you in trouble if there are more than one h1 tag

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I may not be understanding your question right, so forgive me if i give you a wrong answer, but i think what you want to do is get the text out of the tag first

$('h1').text().length

or if you want to count the inside tag as well you can do

$('h1').html().toString().length

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Made what you want with

<h1>oi oi oi </h1>

and

console.log($('h1').contents()[0].length);

If you're H1 had an ID it would probably be better