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Counting Characters Inside a Paragraph

How do you count how many characters are in a paragraph tag with jQuery/Javascript? For example in this sample it would be 3. Are you able to select the characters with .length() somehow? Answer This is what you want

Detach event handlers selectively

I have a html richText editor. My code structure is like this: Our app is single page application, and there are multiple richtexteditor instances opened in different panes. I need to destroy the instance when the node corresponding to this has been removed. Destroy should remove all the event handlers attach…

Start and stop with keypress from keyboard

I have this JavaScript http://jsfiddle.net/ZDsMa/433/ to pick a random number. I put this on html div and I want to start scrambling the numbers with keypress instead of onClick, also to stop again with keypress: Answer You can wrap the animation in a function and then call it on keypress… something lik…

get the new added characters to an input by js

I know this seems a quite easy target. I have an input[type=text], and I want to detect the new added character(s) in it. The normal way is: But the above method not working properly for some browsers on android devices. Typing the android virtual keyboard will not fire the keypress. Then I found the followin…