Count the characters in tinymce

Question

Is there any way by which I can count the characters entered in tinymce editor. I just want to set minimum character requirement. Or how to use tinyMCE.activeEditor.getContent() properly for this purpose.

http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/TinyMCE3x:How_to_limit_number_of_characters/words — mplungjan, Nov 11 '15 at 13:19

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '15 at 13:18

I believe that the better way to do this is using the getContent api:

// Get the HTML contents of the currently active editor
tinymce.activeEditor.getContent().length

// Get the raw text of the currently active editor
tinymce.activeEditor.getContent({format: 'text'}).length;

// Get content of a specific editor:
tinymce.get('content id').getContent().length

Please note the usage of the format parameter in the second example in order to get the raw text instead of the parsed text with HTML tags.

A perfect solution for those on version 4 where the wordcount plugin it's still limited to only words (and you don't have the option to upgrade of course). — elvin, Sep 08 '20 at 19:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '15 at 13:16

Try this ->

 var body = tinymce.get("txtTinyMCE").getBody();
 var content = tinymce.trim(body.innerText || body.textContent);
 return content.length;

See -> http://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Character-Count-and-Character-Limit-validation-for-TinyMCE-editor-using-JavaScript.aspx

Count the characters in tinymce

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