The Bitter Pill

I had a need today for a simple textarea word count script, so whipped this up using jQuery. It ain’t fancy, but it works:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $(\"#text\").keyup(function() {
     $('#count').html($('#text').val().split(/\b[\s,\.-:;]*/).length);
  });
});

I’ll leave it to you to remember you have to have jQuery in place, and sort out the IDs on the textarea and where you’d like the word count to appear.

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