HTMLTextAreaElement: textLength property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The textLength
read-only property of the HTMLTextAreaElement
interface is a non-negative integer representing the number of characters, in UTF-16 code units, of the <textarea>
element's value. It is a shortcut of accessing length
on its value
property.
Value
A non-negative integer.
Examples
js
const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");
console.log(textArea.textLength);
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-textarea-textlength |
Browser compatibility
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