I have a jQuery function wherein I count the characters left on keyup.
function charactersLeft(e) {
var textArea = e.data.textArea,
charLeft = e.data.maxLength - textArea.val().length,
message = e.data.messageContainer;
if (charLeft < e.data.warningLength) {
message.addClass('red').removeClass('green');
}
else {
message.addClass('green').removeClass('red');
}
message.text(charLeft);
}
This one works fine but it counts the carriage return as one character instead of two. This causes a problem when it's passed to the server since the carriage return is passed as '\r\n'.
What can I do to modify my code so that whenever I hit enter, the character count subtracts 2 instead of 1 and adds 2 instead of 1 when a carriage return is deleted?
Thank you :)