tinymce count characters code example
Example: tinymce count characters
tinymce.PluginManager.add('charactercount', function (editor) {
var self = this;
function update() {
editor.theme.panel.find('#charactercount').text(['Characters: {0}', self.getCount()]);
}
editor.on('init', function () {
var statusbar = editor.theme.panel && editor.theme.panel.find('#statusbar')[0];
if (statusbar) {
window.setTimeout(function () {
statusbar.insert({
type: 'label',
name: 'charactercount',
text: ['Characters: {0}', self.getCount()],
classes: 'charactercount',
disabled: editor.settings.readonly
}, 0);
editor.on('setcontent beforeaddundo', update);
editor.on('keyup', function (e) {
update();
});
}, 0);
}
});
self.getCount = function () {
var tx = editor.getContent({ format: 'raw' });
var decoded = decodeHtml(tx);
var decodedStripped = decoded.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig, "").trim();
var tc = decodedStripped.length;
return tc;
};
function decodeHtml(html) {
var txt = document.createElement("textarea");
txt.innerHTML = html;
return txt.value;
}
});