One thing you'll have to take into account (because you're using richetext) is the underlying HTML. Most people aren't going to be able to mentally correlate 100 words of text inside the preview window as actually being 300 characters of code.
You'll also have to make sure you point your target at the underlying code window (an iframe I think) and not the display window or your count will be off. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:34 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: cftextarea: how to count characters? maxlength hey guys i am using cf8 and in my cftextarea richtext=true and maxlength="8000" is there a js or function that would show the user how many charecters the have used and how many are left in a textarea or text field? thanks much -paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:303740 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
