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Getting the word count at the server side

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answered on 08 Sep 2008, 05:12 PM

Hi Rumen,

In this artical there are the following posts:

" steve malkin, 12/20/2007
This is useful for displaying the word count on the page, but how would I write the wordcount to a hidden field value rather than a span so that I could save the wordcount value to a database when the page is saved ?

Telerik Admin, 1/17/2008
Hi Steve, Could you please open a support ticket and I will send you the requested solution? In order to open a support ticket you should be a customer or to have downloaded some product.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team "

I am asking the same question.
Don't you have a way to retrieve the editor's built in word count ?

Thanks,
yaniv

answered on 09 Sep 2008, 09:00 AM

Hi Yaniv,

Here is the requested example:

Default.aspx
<script type="text/javascript">
function OnClientLoad(editor)
{
    editor.add_submit(function ()
    {
        var content = editor.get_text(); //returns the editor's content as plain text
        var words = 0;
        if (content)
        {
            punctRegX = /[!\.?;,:&_\-\-\{\}\[\]~#'"]/g;
            contentcontent = content.replace(punctRegX, "");
            trimRegX = /(^\s+)|(\s+$)/g;
            contentcontent = content.replace(trimRegX, "");
            if (content)
            {
                splitRegX = /\s+/;
                var array = content.split(splitRegX);
                words = array.length;
            }
        }

        var hiddenField = document.getElementById("<%=HiddenField1.ClientID %>"); //get a reference to the HiddenField control
        hiddenField.value = "Words: " + words + " Characters: " + content.length;
    });
}
</script>

<asp:HiddenField ID="HiddenField1" runat="server" />
<telerik:radeditor runat="server" ID="RadEditor1" OnClientLoad="OnClientLoad"></telerik:radeditor>
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" />

Default.aspx.cs:
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Response.Write(HiddenField1.Value);
    }

Another approach is to obtain the content via the RadEditor1.Content server property and using regular expression to count the words directly on the server.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

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