Trapping Key Strokes 1

[simonWMC]

Hello again...

I am looking to track the keystokes of the user as they answer text into a text box in a form. I want to know how many characters they have typed, therfore counting keypresses but minus by one for presses of the backspace key, and delete key.

can i do this with javascript ?

thankyou - i am very grateful for your help

Simon

 

[Cheech]

Have a look at this page, it does what you require

http://codeline-alley.digiserv.net/javascript/textarea_character_count.php

Cheech

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[simonWMC]

Thankyou cheech ! That is great ! Hopfully i can make it work with coursebuilder !

thanks again !!!

 

[Cheech]

You shouldnt have any probs

Cheech

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[simonWMC]

can't work out how to apply to my coursebuilder created text box, and get it to send the number of characters typed to my tracking page

 

[Cheech]

You need to call the function from your textbox, so add the stuff to the head of your document then add

onKeyDown="textCounter(this.form.message,this.form.remLen,125);" onKeyUp="textCounter(this.form.message,this.form.remLen,125);"

to the <textarea> tag and all else should be the same

Cheech

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