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    Angry In JavaScript, how to get the length of a string?

    In JavaScript, how to get the length of a string?

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    Re: In JavaScript, how to get the length of a string?

    have you tried .length ?

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    Angry Re: In JavaScript, how to get the length of a string?

    <TD>Note:</TD>
    <TD>
    <TEXTAREA NAME="note" ROWS="5" COLS="35"></TEXTAREA>
    </TD>

    // Nothing happens
    alert( form.note.value.length() );

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    Re: In JavaScript, how to get the length of a string?

    Quote Originally Posted by _mynameisno1
    alert( form.note.value.length() );
    You want:
    Code:
    alert(form.note.value.length);
    Length is not a method of the string attribute, the reason why the parentheses are avoided.
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    Smile Re: In JavaScript, how to get the length of a string?

    oh, ha, thank you!

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    Re: In JavaScript, how to get the length of a string?

    Assuming it is in a form:

    alert(document.forms[0].note.value.length)

    If it is not in a form then use id="note" instead of name="note"

    And get it with:

    alert(document.getElementById('note').value.length)
    or I suppuse you might get it inside the tag with:

    alert(document.getElementById('note').innerHTML.length)

    Though I'm not sure it should be there based on the standards.
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    Re: In JavaScript, how to get the length of a string?

    Quote Originally Posted by COBOLdinosaur
    Though I'm not sure it should be there based on the standards.
    I'd stick away from innerHTML. It is simply a Microsoft corruption of DOM. Instead, one could usually use .firstChild.date. However, if it is an input element (text box), the value attribute is best for use.

    If you hae name="note", and that is froma databse, and unchangeable, the way to do that would be to use .getElementsByName('note')[0].

    document.getElementsByName('') returns an HTMLCollection of elements with that name. 0 refers to the first (and only, probably) element with the name note.
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