Count the characters in tinymce [duplicate]

Question

Is there any way by which I can count the characters entered in tinymce editor. I just want to set minimum character requirement. Or how to use tinyMCE.activeEditor.getContent() properly for this purpose.

Answer 1

I believe that the better way to do this is using the getContent api:

// Get the HTML contents of the currently active editor
tinymce.activeEditor.getContent().length

// Get the raw text of the currently active editor
tinymce.activeEditor.getContent({format: 'text'}).length;

// Get content of a specific editor:
tinymce.get('content id').getContent().length

Please note the usage of the format parameter in the second example in order to get the raw text instead of the parsed text with HTML tags.