How to count the number of characters in a DIV with javascript

$('#mydiv').text().length

should do the trick.

Try this. I am trimming to avoid any white spaces in the content start or end.

$.trim($("#mydiv").text()).length

If you want to keep spaces also in the count then don't trim it just use this.

$("#mydiv").text().length

Sample
http://jsfiddle.net/TrMRB/

$("#mydiv p").text().length;

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