Word Count Javascript

Very cool, Phil.  This will be another great example to add to our conference demos folder.  Thanks for sharing the file.

I wrote some JavaScript for this as well but yours looks a lot cleaner - thanks Phil.

Thanks Nancy and David, cannot take too much credit for the code, I originally wrote a function and realised it didn't take account of double spaces, found a version of this code online and modified it, much cleaner than my original solution.

So...what would one use this for Phil? Could you provide me a little background on why a developer would use this code?

You could use it to count the number of words in an essay question, perhaps the user has a minimum or maximum word count.

I could use it to validate a text entry field perhaps a single word answer such as "rewrwrew" (I type something like this in most text entry field in courses) is not a valid answer so may make the user write an answer or maybe not.

Sometimes I just build what I am asked to build :-)

Thanks Phil!

Katie, I used something like this in a writing exercise in which the learner was supposed to edit a paragraph to make it concise. If they got it down to 50 words I gave them the option to skip the lesson.