FreqCountable is a JavaScript function to add live paragraph-, word- and character-counting to an HTML element.

=> <textarea id="text"></textarea>, { all: 0, characters: 0, paragraphs: 0, words: 0 }

Countable.live() and Countable.once() both accept a third argument, an options object that allows you to change how Countable treats certain aspects of your element's text.

{
  hardReturns: false,
  stripTags: false,
  ignoreReturns: false
}

By default, paragraphs are split by a single return (a soft return). By setting hardReturns to true, Countable splits paragraphs after two returns.

Depending on your application and audience, you might need to strip HTML tags from the text before counting it. You can do this by setting stripTags to true.

In most cases, returns should be counted as part of the all property. Set ignoreReturns to false to remove them from the counter.

FreqCountable supports all modern browsers. Internet Explorer is supported down to version 7. Note that some browsers don't implement the oninput event consistently so there might be differences in the way FreqCountable works in different browsers.