CharacterData: length property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The read-only CharacterData.length property returns the number of characters in the contained data, as a positive integer.

Value

A positive integer with the length of the CharacterData.data string.

Example

Note: CharacterData is an abstract interface. The examples below use Text, a concrete interface implementing it.

html
Length of the string in the <code>Text</code> node: <output></output>
js
const output = document.querySelector("output");
const textNode = new Text("This text has been set using 'textNode.data'.");

output.value = textNode.length;

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# dom-characterdata-length

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
length

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