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javascript-character-count

v2.1.1

Published

An amazingly small, dependency-less utility for text truncation. Less than 1 Kbyte!

Downloads

10

Readme

JavaScriptCharacterCount

An amazingly small, dependency-less utility for counting input characters. Less than 1 Kbyte!

Demo

Usage

Count Up

<form>
    <fieldset>
        <label for="count-characters">Enter Text ...</label>
        <input id="count-characters">
    </fieldset>

    <fieldset>
        <label for="count-characters-result">Element contains
        <input type="text" id="count-characters-result" readonly>
        characters.
    </fieldset>
</form>

<script>
  // Pass input element as first argument.
  // with jquery: $('#count-characters');
  // Options array as second argument.
  characterCount(document.getElementById('count-characters'), {
    max: 3, // the maximum input length (use for ux or callback)
    // Pass output element to the output key.
    output: document.getElementById('count-characters-result')
  });
</script>

Count Down

<form>
    <fieldset>
        <label for="count-characters">Enter Text ...</label>
        <input id="count-characters">
    </fieldset>

    <fieldset>
        <label for="count-characters-result">Element can contain up to
        <input type="text" id="count-characters-result" readonly>
        more characters.
    </fieldset>
</form>

<script>
  // Pass input element as first argument.
  // with jquery: $('#count-characters');
  // Options array as second argument.
  characterCount(document.getElementById('count-characters'), {
    max: 3, // the maximum input length (use for ux or callback)
    // Pass output element to the output key.
    output: document.getElementById('count-characters-result'),
    // Invert counting, e.g. counting down
    invert: true
  },
  null // Callback in the third argument - here null
  );
</script>

See 'examples' for a real life example.

CDN

For Development: https://rawgit.com/PascaleBeier/JavaScriptCharacterCount/2.1.0/dist/javascript-character-count.min.js

For Production: https://cdn.rawgit.com/PascaleBeier/JavaScriptCharacterCount/2.1.0/dist/javascript-character-count.min.js

Download

Downloads can be found at the Releases Page.

npm: npm i javascript-character-count

API

  characterCount(element <element>, array <options>, callback <function> = null);

Options

The array passed as second argument:

{
  max: 255 // int, required. The callback is fired after this number is reached (or subtracted to 0 with invert = true)
  output: document.querySelector('div.outputElement'), // element, required
  invert: true // invert counting
}

Callbacks

Most of the time, you will want something to happen when a user enters a certain number of characters. You can realize this with callbacks. If you want a simple alert() to popup, you can do:

<form>
    <fieldset>
        <label for="count-characters">Enter Text ...</label>
        <input id="count-characters">
    </fieldset>

    <fieldset>
        <label for="count-characters-result">Element contains
        <input type="text" id="count-characters-result" readonly>
        characters.
    </fieldset>
</form>

<script>
  // Pass input element as first argument.
  // with jquery: $('#count-characters');
  // Options array as second argument.
  characterCount(document.getElementById('count-characters'), {
    max: 3, // the maximum input length (use for ux or callback)
    // Pass output element to the output key.
    output: document.getElementById('count-characters-result')
  },
  // Passing the callback function as third parameter.
  function () {
    alert('You entered the maximum number of characters');
  });
</script>

Changelog

See CHANGELOG

Contributing - Development Setup

# Get the source
$ git clone https://github.com/PascaleBeier/JavaScriptCharacterCount
$ cd JavaScriptCharacterCount
# Install devDependencies
$ npm i
# Compile src/ to dist/
$ npm run dev
# Build for publishing
$ npm run build

start editing src/javascript-character-count.js and open up examples/index.html in your browser.

License

The MIT License.