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 April 2018.
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 |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-textarea-textlength> |
Browser compatibility
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