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

See also