Comments on One way: Character count a textarea in Ruby on Rails

Thanks! I spent some time getting it to work, beca...

2009-10-16T07:47:54.147-07:00

Thanks!
I spent some time getting it to work, because of missing frequency. I would propose something like this into application_helper.rb:

def character_count(field_id, update_id, options = {})
function = "$('#{update_id}').innerHTML = $F('#{field_id}').length;"
out = javascript_tag(function) # set current length
options = {:

Thanks, Mark! I modified this a little and came up...

2009-09-17T09:07:04.966-07:00

Thanks, Mark! I modified this a little and came up with a word count using your code as a starting point. Works great! Thanks, again!

Here is the modified version that supports word count and both client and server-side validation:
http://stufftohelpyouout.blogspot.com/