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Jun 21.2004

Hy.

I would need a JavaScript that counts how many lines are written in an HTML textarea.

Thanks for any responses.

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@fredmvJun 21.2004 — <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>untitled</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script type="text/javascript">
function getLineAmount(ta)
{
return ta.value.split(/n/).length;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="#">
<fieldset>
<legend>Textarea Line Counter</legend>
<textarea id="foo" rows="10" cols="59"></textarea>
<input type="button" value="How many lines?" onclick="alert(getLineAmount(document.getElementById('foo')));">
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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