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TinyMCE characters counter plugin
tinymce.init({
plugins: 'charactercount',
elementpath: false
});
/**
* Credit: https://amystechnotes.com/2015/05/06/tinymce-add-character-count/
* This is a slightly modified version to work with more recent TinyMCE version, fix some code styling and don't trim
* trailing and leading whitespaces from count.
*/
tinymce.PluginManager.add('charactercount', function (editor) {
var _self = this;
function update() {
editor.theme.panel.find('#charactercount').text(['Characters: {0}', _self.getCount()]);
}
editor.on('init', function () {
var statusbar = editor.theme.panel && editor.theme.panel.find('#statusbar')[0];
if (statusbar) {
window.setTimeout(function () {
statusbar.insert({
type: 'label',
name: 'charactercount',
text: ['Characters: {0}', _self.getCount()],
classes: 'charactercount',
disabled: editor.settings.readonly
}, 0);
editor.on('setcontent beforeaddundo keyup', update);
}, 0);
}
});
_self.getCount = function () {
var tx = editor.getContent({ format: 'raw' });
var decoded = decodeHtml(tx);
var decodedStripped = decoded.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig, '');
var tc = decodedStripped.length;
return tc;
};
function decodeHtml(html) {
var txt = document.createElement('textarea');
txt.innerHTML = html;
return txt.value;
}
});
.mce-label.mce-charactercount
margin: 2px 0 2px 2px
padding: 8px
font-size: 12px
.mce-path
display: none !important
@salazarr-js
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works perfectly ❤️

@rimomcosta
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Perfect Man, thank you very much, I changed the font to 11px and "{0} CHARACTERS" instead "Characters: {0}", now is perfect.

@ppizarror
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works like a charm, thanks!

@Novasol
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Novasol commented Jun 30, 2018

Super. Thank you a lot. P

@Tes3awy
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Tes3awy commented Aug 27, 2018

Thanks a lot bro. Works like a charm.

@smirnov-o
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need delete "\n"

editor.getContent({format: 'raw'}).replace(/\n/g, '')

@kaisjaber
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Where should I put tinymce.sass ?

@SteffanCline
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I'm wondering the same thing. Is there a default name and path for it? I'm having an issue where the text is located and am thinking the CSS would help.
Screen Shot 2019-09-30 at 8 21 51 PM

@SteffanCline
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SteffanCline commented Oct 1, 2019

Rename the folder charactercount
Change the first line to
tinymce.PluginManager.add('charactercount', function (editor,url) {
Just below that add:
tinymce.DOM.loadCSS(url + '/css/charactercount.css');
Minify the file and name it plugin.min.js
Create a subfolder called css
Create a file within that folder called charactercount.css
Place the following css:
.mce-label.mce-charactercount {
margin: 2px 0 2px 2px;
padding: 8px;
font-size: 14px;
}

Clear your cache and reload the page. Works great!

@vignesh-udhay
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Is there a way to limit the maximum number of characters that can be entered, like the maxlength attribute on textarea ?

@bardware
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bardware commented Apr 1, 2021

I guess Adding custom text in statusbar in TinyMCE 5.x does not work like it used to in 4.x.

@sabareesh-warlock
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I had tried this code but it is not working for me can any once check my code.

tinymce.PluginManager.add('charactercount', function (editor) {
	var _self = this;

	function update() {
editor.theme.panel.find('#charactercount').text(['Characters: {0}', _self.getCount()]);
	}

	editor.on('init', function () {
var statusbar = editor.theme.panel && editor.theme.panel.find('#statusbar')[0];

if (statusbar) {
		window.setTimeout(function () {
	statusbar.insert({
			type: 'label',
			name: 'charactercount',
			text: ['Characters: {0}', _self.getCount()],
			classes: 'charactercount',
			disabled: editor.settings.readonly
	}, 0);

	editor.on('setcontent beforeaddundo keyup', update);
		}, 0);
}
	});

	_self.getCount = function () {
var tx = editor.getContent({ format: 'raw' });
var decoded = decodeHtml(tx);
var decodedStripped = decoded.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig, '');
var tc = decodedStripped.length;
return tc;
	};

	function decodeHtml(html) {
var txt = document.createElement('textarea');
txt.innerHTML = html;
return txt.value;
	}
});

tinymce.init({
selector:'.product_desc',
height : "280",
plugins: 'lists code charactercount',
elementpath: false,
branding: false,
toolbar: 'undo redo | styleselect | bold italic | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | outdent indent | code | numlist bullist ',
init_instance_callback: function (ed) {
	ed.on('keyup', function (e) {
		var max = 300;
		var count = ed.contentDocument.body.innerText.length;
		//console.log(count);
		document.getElementById("character_count").innerHTML = "Characters: " + count;
		if (count > max) {
			alert("Maximum " + max + " characters allowed.");
			return false;
		}
	});
	ed.on('keypress', function (e) {
		var max = 300;
		var count = ed.contentDocument.body.innerText.length;
		console.log("Key Press");
		count = count + 1;
		console.log(count);
		if (count > max) {
			alert("Maximum " + max + " characters allowed.");
			return false;
		}
	});
}
});

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