Well, it's 100% ok to discuss a idea here. But when it comes to requests like "I would like TinyMCE to do this and that" it's better to submit a feature request at Sourceforge.

The big problem with a character counter for TinyMCE is that WYSIWYG editor contains much more than characters, since it contains HTML markup tags. So what should it count, the number of real characters including <strong> or just characters that are displayed to the user? Or both, and whats the purpose of the count, is it to check the max length of a database post or the visual area. If it's a visual area it should check the pixel width/height not the char count.

Then you could use tinyMCE.getContent('<editor id or element name/id>').length to get the HTML content length in chars. Place this in a script on onsubmit or simmilar and just alert out "To many chars bla bla".

Has this plugin been developed yet?

Any idea if there is something similar available to use?

Thanks

Hi there,

I'd quite like to dynamically display the number of characters that are being shown (so excluding any html).

I'm new to TinyMCE, but it looks like using tinyMCE.getContent('<editor id or element name/id>').length, on it's own is useful when processing the info.
Could anyone tell me where to put this code (or other) to access this info as it's being typed?

I see from the posts that "ssdesign" was developing a plugin.  I can't see it in the list.  That would be brilliant. Any news?

Many thanks in advance.

Hi junaid,

your post is worthless. The last post in this thread is over half a year old. The TinyMCE version in use probably is the 2.x branch (RC2 of the 3.x branch got out in January 2008!!!) so your code probably doesn't fit anyways.

Hi All,
I think we don't need to use reg-exp to remove tags and count characters, not sure how fast the regexp implementation, but i believe that the way I use should work faster and precisely

here is the way to do it via DOM

/**
* Return the "clean-text" length of the edited text in the tinyMCE
* @param editorId
*/
function getLengthMCE(editorId) {

    // Get the editor instance that we want to interact with.
    var oEditor = tinyMCE.get(editorId) ;

    // Get the Editor Area DOM (Document object).
    var oDOM = oEditor.getDoc() ;

    var iLength ;
    // The are two diffent ways to get the text (without HTML markups).
    // It is browser specific.
    if (document.all) {
        // If Internet Explorer.
        iLength = oDOM.body.innerText.length;
    } else {
        // If Gecko.
        var r = oDOM.createRange() ;
        r.selectNodeContents(oDOM.body);
        iLength = r.toString().length;
    }

    return iLength;
}

Andrey Chorniy

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