jQuery count that includes all chars including ENTER, etc?

I know tha开发者_StackOverflow中文版t usually you want to strip these out, but I need the true char count and I can't find out how to get it...

Thanks for the help

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Keith, I wrote a quick tutorial about this some weeks ago which will likely have the snippet you need. The demo is at this page and the tutorial is here. Hope this helps.

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Use the length property on any string to get its character count. E.g.

'this is an example string'.length // == 26

or, for jQuery:

$('#my_textarea').html().length

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N.B. use html() not text() to avoid having jQuery do things like removing line-breaks.

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What's wrong with .length? That counts line breaks as characters (I assume you meant a line break by 'ENTER'?)

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This plugin seems to do the job.

It counts words too.