Count textarea characters

Question

I am developing a character count for my textarea on this website. Right now, it says NaN because it seems to not find the length of how many characters are in the field, wh

Answer 1

For those wanting a simple solution without jQuery, here's a way.

textarea and message container to put in your form:

Length 

JavaScript:

The script counts the characters initially and then for every keystroke and puts the number in the counter span.

Martin