Live Character Count Meter with Jquery.
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Live Character Count Meter with Jquery.

In this post I want to explain how to do live character or word count meter using Jquery. It is interesting and simple just ten lines of java script code. Use it and enrich your web applications with jquery.

jquery live character count meter

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Javascript code
$('#contentbox').keyup(function(){} - contentbox is the ID of the textbox. Using $(this).val() getting the textbox value. bar is the div ID of the count meter $('#bar').animate() increasing the width.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/
ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("#contentbox").keyup(function()
{
var box=$(this).val();
var main = box.length *100;
var value= (main / 145);
var count= 145 - box.length;

if(box.length <= 145)
{
$('#count').html(count);
$('#bar').animate(
{
"width": value+'%',
}, 1);
}
else
{
alert(' Full ');
}
return false;
});

});
</script>



HTML Code
Contains simple HTML code.
<div>
<div id="count">145</div>
<div id="barbox"><div id="bar"></div></div>
</div>
<textarea id="contentbox"></textarea>

CSS Code
#bar
{
background-color:#5fbbde;
width:0px;
height:16px;
}
#barbox
{
float:right;
height:16px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
width:100px;
border:solid 2px #000;
margin-right:3px;
-webkit-border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;
}
#count
{
float:right; margin-right:8px;
font-family:'Georgia', Times New Roman, Times, serif;
font-size:16px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#666666
}
#contentbox
{
width:450px; height:50px;
border:solid 2px #006699;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:14px;
}
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31 comments:

  1. Again a nice and useful post.
    There should be automatic remove functionality for extra characters.

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  2. I use a similar thing for one of my sites, I like the progress bar that I don't have :)

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  3. my first visit here...
    your blog very usefully...
    nice to meet you my broder...salom from bandung blogger Indonesia
    thanks ^_^'

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  4. there still have a bug. no stop in limit character.

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  5. Hi,

    this is really simple and usefull.

    Thanks :)

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  6. this is one of the cool site i have ever seen.
    as others have said i have also noticed that it doesn't stop after mentioned limit.

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  7. How can this be integrated to Twitter API?

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  8. Thanks. Mine is a Twitter like dynamic character counter.

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  9. Thanks for the effort. Adding this line:

    var trimmed = $(this).val().substring(0,145);
    $(this).val(trimmed);


    instead of:

    alert(' Full ');

    will complement the solution.
    Regards

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  10. This is not working in IE7, please check!

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  11. It doesn't work on IE 8...

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  12. I think you could get better results with this right here:
    .bind("input paste", function(e) {
    --------------
    at least it did for me, I found out about it while doing something like the twitter chars counter and it works perfectly, even if you paste/hold down keys it will keep counting and wont wait until you lift up your fingers to refresh the counter.
    Tested on chrome/opera/firefox.

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  13. can i run this on my localhost only?????do i need internet connection on running these?? pls reply

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  14. @Josea

    Download jquery.min.js file replace the library file

    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/
    ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

    to

    <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.min.js"<</script>

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  15. its having no limit...whats the use then?

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  17. nice. You should also bind "change" event with textbox because its not working when we paste data using mouse.

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  18. love it ..... thanks for sharing

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  19. Hello Srinivas,

    Many thanks for the amazing post. I would like to integrate your character counter script into my Cforms II wordpress plugin but I have no idea how I can do that? As i am not technically oriented at all. Would it be possible if you could offer me some proper guidance? I would extremely appreciate it!

    Cheers
    Ziad

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  20. Hi, thanks for this, very nice.

    I have got the box to open in a lightbox on clicking a button, but all I can get to display is the contentbox. Is it possible to pull the count and bar into the lightbox too?

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  21. /* thankyou srinivas but maybe you need to detect paste or cut from mouse right click */

    $(document).ready(function()
    {

    function count_text(noid){
    var box=$("#"+noid).val();
    var main = box.length *100;
    var value= (main / 350);
    var count= 350 - box.length;

    if(box.length <= 350)
    {
    $('#count').html(count);
    $('#bar').animate(
    {
    "width": value+'%',
    }, 1);
    }
    return false;
    }

    $("#desc").bind({
    paste : function(){
    setTimeout(function(e) {
    count_text("desc");
    }, 0);
    },keyup:function(){
    setTimeout(function(e) {
    count_text("desc");
    }, 0);
    },
    cut : function(){
    setTimeout(function(e) {
    count_text("desc");
    }, 0);
    }
    });
    });

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  22. how come this does not work for me? :/

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  23. Sorry If I am wrong pasting characters is not increasing the count

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  24. Fix to make it work with IE is to change:

    "width": value+'%',

    to:

    "width": value+'%'

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